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Hi Michael, (...) It's not that hard you are thinking ! check out this document and you'll see it's not that hard ! (URL)Do I still need to reprogram the HC11 chip? I only need 9600,n,8,1 settings (...) Depends on what handshake you're using. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi In regards with programming the serial port to talk to a mouse, if i only want to use the existing baud rate and settings to talk to a modem, can it be done? Do I still need to reprogram the HC11 chip? I only need 9600,n,8,1 settings which i (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Several of us in the Physical Computing lab at Parsons are working with HandyBoards running off laptops with Win98. We have been experinecing problems with getting the board to go into the download mode. The board crashed after we dowloaded files in (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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you have to reprogram the serial configuration register. download the 68hc11 documentation at handyboard.com/techdocs/ and read the chapter on the SCI (serial communications interface). after poking new values into the SCI registers to get the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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hi, i am trying to interface a mouse to the handy board to use as some sort of position control. I can read data from the serial port, but unfortunately I need to reconfigure the port, but I dont know how. The mouse transmits at 7bits 1stop bit, and (...) (24 years ago, 8-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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A couple of weeks ago, students in my Autonomous Robotics course found some bugs in my lock_process() library code. lock_process() and unlock_process() were intended to work like hog_processor() and defer(), except to allow a variable duration of (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi Daniel, section 5.4 of the HandyBoard Technical Reference says that switch / case statements are not supported in IC. I do not know whether this has changed since it was released. <handyboard@media.mit.edu> escribió en el mensaje de noticias (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Recommendation for a robotics set.
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crossposted from lugnet.robotics I should have added that,as I am already getting the HandyBoard, any sets containing lots of electronics (aka. Robotics Invention System...) are not the most interesting for me. I am looking for the structural stuff (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Has anyone attempted to build a batter/power monitor interface on the Handyboard? In reading the Mobile robots book it shows that that platform supports a battery monitor to an analog port. I would like to achieve the same functionality on the (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Yes, check out my web site nfn.no-ip.com/spazbot. It works great! I wrote the code to pull it off, it's not too hard. The code should be posted at lynxmotion, if it's not I can send you an example. (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) to (...) I've used similar 555/IR detector ones. They work fine, but you have to do a lot of filtering to "get the noise out". Because of that I wrote a PIC 12C508 program that handles the noise filtering and signal processing and just sets a (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hey all, Does anyone have any information on getting a handyboard and a Palm device to work together? Has anyone done this? I'm looking to be able to reprogram the Handyboard from the palm device in the field, so I don't have to lug around a (...) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi Has anybody ever used a IR Proximity Detector Kit from Lynxmotion to connect to the Handy-Board? (URL) (24 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Right, no connection! Steve's "First Internet Robot Contest" has nothing to do with FIRST, the organization formerly known as "US FIRST," which is presently cooperating with LEGO in the "FIRST LEGO League" (FLL). Todd, thanks for allowing me to (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Fred, Steve, The word "First" here has nothing to do with FIRST[1], right? --Todd [1] (URL) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard, lugnet.robotics)
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Hi all, If you're a hobbyist and you've built a cool robot, consider entering it in the First Internet Robot Contest. Prizes include LEGO Droid Developer Kits, a Handy Board, and other fun stuff. I'm on the jury -- but I did promise the organizer (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hello: I am trying to interface a Radiometrix BiM 433-F transceiver to the Handy Board. I have found some information regarding this matter on the HB's mailing list and other sites but they don't seem to have enough information. So far I have (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi I am building a Handy Board from a PCB I have ordered by the Net, but I have some difficulties to find the 32K static CMOS chip here in France. Is it possible to replace/adapt with a more common one, or does it exist with another reference I (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi ... can you post a copy of the code you're running? Also, it is safe to say that you don't think it's a hardware problem -- that generally your HB works OK? or, are you a new user, and it might be hardware-related? fred (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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After running an IC thing on my board for about 10 minutes my handyboard decides to just freeze on me, I am spawning new processes, but I am ensuring I am killing these before I continue with my next round through the loop. I don't think I am (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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