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I put up a website regarding the robot I built with the handyboard. I'll be designing more sensors for it soon, Spazbot is at nfn.no-ip.com/spazbot (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Hall Effect
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You are going to find that it is not the encoders as I thought also. The HB seems to be incapable of reading correctly. I don't know why, but I have been trying for about 3 months with no/or little success. Someone knows, but no one is telling. I (...) (24 years ago, 18-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Sonar and Compass together on expansion board.
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I am working in adapting a PNI compass to the handyboard. And I have a 6500 sonar board connected to the expansion board, here's my idea: Use a Lithium 3.6V battery to save calibration settings after poweroff M/S is jumper selectable Calibrate is (...) (24 years ago, 17-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Pcode benchmark
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The pcode includes a benchmark primitive to see how well the multitasking environment is functioning. Does anyone know how to access this function? George Musser georgejr@musser.com Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Communication Protocol
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Hi everyone, I'm working on a project that implies the communication of the Handy-Board with a PC computer via the serial port. The person who is in charge of programming the software that will run on the PC asked me what is the communication (...) (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IR transmission
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What value resistor should I put in series with the IR led for transmitting from the hb ?. The red led that is present as an indicator is rated for about 5mA (I think they normally run at about 2-3mA) using a 1K resistor (R5) so should I run the IR (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Got some code for you: Sonar on handy in feet & inches!
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Hi, I wanted to see how to convert the sonar hits into feet in inches. Well as the textbook rule goes it looke like it takes 333.333 ticks = 1 inch round trip. Since the timer is running 2,000,000 counts per second. But in real life I had to fudge (...) (24 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Hall Effect Encoder = sloppy, going optical
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Well the Quad hall effect switch encoder does not give repeable resolution. If I say 14 ticks = right turn (motors going in opposite direction) well. sometime it is on the money, sometime it's not. And I don't have a racer.. I have it running slow (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Rover based on Hanyboard is evolving well!
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Sure.. hey I thought I replied to the list. Here's the picture so far.. note: lugenet doesn't allow jpeg attachments so You will get the image, lugenet will reject them. I am hoping to put up a webpage soon. I've got a few sensors I am designing (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | **cant use 100 step mtr prgrm wth...
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Hi, I am trying to use the 100 step motor code and a Hb expansion board. I can get either one of them to work ALONE ONLY. So I can only use the expansion board. OR the 100 step pcode, How do I install both so they dont conflict with one another. (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Problems with microprocesseurs
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Hello, I work with a Handy Board and an other board based on 68hc11E2. The first is master and the second is slave. The SPI communication is OK between 2 boards. The first send the position of servos to the second. At the start, all is OK. After 2 (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Rover based on Hanyboard is evolving well!
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Hi You can only run the counter 4x slower as now. But in this case, the complete HB works 4x times slower, so this isn't a usefull solution. The other possibility is the use the overflow flag and integers. I didn't solve that problem. For more (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Rover based on Hanyboard is evolving well!
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Hi, I managed to build up a pan & tilt platform for my rover out of Servos, I hot glued them together and built a mount for my ultrasonic transducer out of perfboard. Also you need to make a baffle for the rear of the transducer or you do get (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Here's the Rover with handyboard
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Please let us out of your list. ---...--- Click here for Free Video!! (URL) Original Message ----- From: T. Gathright <terrygathright@home.com> To: Jerry Normandin <jerrynormandin@ne.m...aone.net>; <handyboard@media.mit.edu> Sent: Monday, September (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Peekword returns an int... can I typecast in Interactive C?
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Hello, my problem is that peekword returns an int. I need a long. Is there a way around this in Interactive C??? (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Interactive C question can you cast an int to a long?
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Hi, I have an interactive C question, I'd like to return this: return peekword(0x1014) - start_time; as a long.. since this is why there's a distance limit in the sonar.c code. Can I return this as a long? (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | possibly the way the driver is written limiting sonar range?
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Hi, I was playing with my handyboard's sonar.. The distance limitation is in the code, since we are using integers we are limited to -32,778 to 32,768.. and that's why I am at @15 ft limit. After we change the sonar code to longs the problem is (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Here's the code I wrote so far, any ideas why my Polaroid 6500 has only 15ft range?
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Hi everyone, Here's some code that I have so far. I have no clue why I only get 15' range out of my Polaroid 6500. I did not get the usual fastener that clasps the tranducer into place, could that do it? My tansducer is mounted on "sensor array" (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Polaroid 6500 ranging.. only getting 15ft range!
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Hi, How do you get 35ft range out of the handyboard? I get a negetive number when hitting an object over 15ft away! Does anyone else have this problem? Can I adjust it somehow? Thanks! (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | handy board
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Hello, I am in need of some assistance please. I am trying to have a portable omni view digital camera take compressed mjpeg images and send them over a modem connection. To do this I believe I would need a handy board. Another characteristic of it (...) (24 years ago, 12-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | TI-92
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Have anybody link a TI-92 (Texas Instruments Calculator). Because I fail on my first try. And only got a cero value form the TI-92. Any Help? Thanks Daniel R (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | IR Reception
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I posted this question previously but got no reply so I am trying again. I have mounted the IS1U60 infrared demodulator on to the HB but I have realised that it can only recieve from a particular direction. Is it possible to mount another IS1U60 by (...) (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Encoders
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IC can't sample the A/D converters that quickly. As long as you're generating a nice squarewave you could connect it to one of the input capture pins and write a custom interrupt routine to maintain the count. --Chuck (...) (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Encoders
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Since some are on the subject of encoders, I have a problem I would like to get help on. I have a hall effect sensor dutifully counting pulses on a gear. The gear will rotate from 800-4000 RPM. I am running the signal through a 741 OP Amp to (...) (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Encoders, what are you using?
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Jerry, go to: EE 401 - Electrical Engineering Design Course - 1999/2000 then to shaft encoders they have 16, 32, or 64 sections you can print out. bye, Terry G. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Normandin" <jerrynormandin@ne.m...iaone.net> (...) (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | I fixed my slop!
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Hey.. I added a quick reverse drive to the moter.. it turns out my slop was the drive system coasting! I added brake and I am more accurate now!!!!!!! (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Encoders, what are you using?
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Hi, My homebrew quad hall effect encoder works, I'm learning from it. I get @ 1/4" resolution so there's plenty of slop. I can have the robot pace back and forth on a straight track for 6 passes or so then I start to veer off track. So I guess it's (...) (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Robot Program for Rover so far...
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Hi everyone. Well I decided to go with a Quad Hall Effect encoder. I mounted 4 very small magnets on my 1" plastic drive gears and used the Hall Effect switch that Fred recommended. Here's the code I have and the results! For a 180 degree turn I get (...) (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sensor supply voltage & PC communication
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hi. you can certainly tap the 9.6v batt output to power the sensor (use J13), but make *sure* that the sensor does not put out more than 5v, or you'll blow your analog inputs. if you're not sure, put a 1K resistor in series with the sensor's output (...) (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | External Motor Power
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I have read the FAQ on cutting the trace that supplies motor power from the Handyboard battery so you can use another power source but it doesn't address the issue of what to do if you have an expansion board. I am sure someone must have done this (...) (24 years ago, 10-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Sensor supply voltage & PC communication
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Hi Everyone, I want to use a photoelectric sensor with my handy-board. The sensor require a 10 V supply voltage, while the digital inputs of the HB only supply 5 V. Can I simply use one of the motor outputs to supply the sensor, and plug the signal (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Newton Labs posted the pcode31 source back up!!!...!!!
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Hi everyone! I guess it pays to be polite and explain why you need something! Well Newton Labs posted the pcode source back on the web server. If anyone owns an Interactive C 3.1 license and you want to work with the pcode source, it can be found (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | The Pcode Source -> working on an agreement with Newton Labs
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Hi Everyone. I am working on aquiring the source to pcode_hb.asm. I pointed them to the newsgroup posting that has Randy Seargent himself directing someone to download the pcode source from newton labs. I also informed him that if I am going to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Newton Labs Not releasing PCODE source for 3.1
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That's why I Love OPEN SOURCE and the Linux Movement! OK, then I want to RETURN MY LICENSE and move on. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Newton Labs Not releasing PCODE source for 3.1 -> Fred Help!
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Whew. I have encountered the same problem back when I wanted the improved PWM code in the new version of IC. Back then (about 2 years ago) I managed to find someone who actually had a copy of the 3.1 pcode. Don't ask me for it, I lost it long ago. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: Newton Labs Not releasing PCODE source for 3.1
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Jerry- You didn't 'buy' IC 3.1. You paid for a license to use the software. I doubt that you were buying the actual source code, which probably took hundreds of hours for the programmers to write. That is their intellectual property, and it is their (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Any SPI bus gurus out there?
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Hi, I have a question. Does the sonar implementation that's suggested prohibit you from adding additional devices to the SPI bus? I know you can add as many SPI devices as you have enable lines. I'd like to add sonar, compass, and RTC / battery (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Newton Labs Not releasing PCODE source for 3.1 -> Fred Help!
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George Musser brought up a very good issue! Where the heck is pcode_hb.asm? This code was released in ver 2.86 and enhancements were made to the pcode from the user base. Newton Labs has tunnel vision and NO CLUE to how open source software can (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Pcode source code; disabling the LCD
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Hi all, Does anyone have a copy of the pcode source for IC 3.1? According to an earlier posting, it used to be available on the Newton Labs FTP site, but it's not there anymore. Also, has anyone ever completely disabled their LCD? Even after the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Here's the Rover with handyboard
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Hello Jerry, Did not get the picture of the Mars Rover. Sounds like you have a good start on your robot, please keep us advised on the problems and solutions. Was it hard to convert the mice encoders?? should be very accurate, please post the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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