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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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| | can't get handyboard in download mode
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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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| | Re: handy board serial port
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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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| | RE: flow control with Switch
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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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| | Handyboard power monitor
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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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| | Re: Hanging Problem
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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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| | Hanging Problem
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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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| | Re: Sonar limited by signed int... change to unsigned?
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Hi I've the same problem! I've wrote a first program to solve that, but i didn't work. Look at my message from 16. October. (sonar and overflow) If you don't need that accuray, then you can just use the overflow_counter, but this is not at all (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, The sonar code is limited to 15' since we are using a signed int. I don't want to change the timer resolution since the multitasker will run slower. The counter only supports an int right? So we can use a signed int and check the overflow flag? (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: new to hb :) - Functional Pointers
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no, IC does not support function pointers. fred (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Can I use function pointers in IC ? (simple question1 :) - ciaran (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Difficulty with timing
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For doing interrupts and otherwise using .asm functions in IC, I'm writing a series explaining the why's and how's of doing this on a RugWarrior site at rugwarrior@egroups.com. Sign up and join in. The subject line in the series is "asm-IC." Best (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I am attempting to take in some information into my handyboard through one of the external digital ports, the value I am trying to send in is 128 bits in total length(using serial of course), and then I am wanting to relay this to a windows machine (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: that _raw_analog undefined thing
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Hi Naomi. The problem is not with the get_char function, I think that is with the analog function. Try to find this files in your IC/LIBS directory: lib_hb.asm lib_hb.c lib_hb.icb Expens.c HBsensor.c The _raw_analog is a rutine and it is defined in (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | _raw_analog problem solved... kind of
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Dear Mr. Martin, Since the ic libs seem to be different than they were, I found a old copy of old ic download and re-installed once again. Problem gone. Is it that your new _raw_analog won't work with old code? Feeing like a pain in the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Dear Mr. Martin, First, thank you for your patience. I'm really sorry to be so much trouble. The Targa thing is easy to explain, so I'll start with that. Yes, the files are all in ZIP archives. When I unzip them, the .icb files show the suffix .icb, (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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At this point I'm not clear exactly what error message you're getting. Would you 1. send a transcript of Interactive C's bootup text, leading to the error? 2. explain the Targa file problem. i don't understand where you'd be seeing this message -- (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I did that twice with no new results. I'm stuck for other ideas. It doesn't make sense. Naomi (...) them (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I had already tried that but I did it again at your suggestion, threw everything away and re-downloaded and same problem. It makes no sense to me. Naomi (...) them (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi. You may want to try redownloading and installing your lib files. Get them from (URL) and put them in your \ic\libs\ folder. Fred (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | that _raw_analog undefined thing
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One more thing about the problem I just posted about my code not compiling because _raw_analog is undefined according to ic. Those .icb files come in from downloading as targa files and the machine seems to think they're photoshop files. Could that (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, I'm having a problem, maybe a stupid one, I don't know. This is it: Everything was going fine until I started writing a new ic program using serial_getchar. All of a sudden, when I tried to run the program, I was getting all these error messages (...) (24 years ago, 21-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | handyboard@media.mit.edu is no longer!
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hi everyone, todd lehman and i have completed the transition from handyboard@media.mit.edu to LUGNET. we moved 233 addresses from the MIT list to LUGNET delivery. apparently 7 of you were on both lists at once -- getting double messages. here's (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | kitchen electrical appliances.
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Dear sir or madame: Elecpro,a joint venture located in China mainland, is specialized in manufacturing kitchen electrical appliances. including rice cooker,electrical pressure cooker etc. In 1998 it passed the ISO9002 of international quality system (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Running 4.5 V motor
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(...) If you mean a older lego 4.5V motor, then yes, it will work OK (I suppose). The max. voltage I ever ran a 4.5V battery at was 54V, and it seemed to survive OK. (Nom. 54V, I doubt more than 40 actual volts...I was launching airplanes with (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Running 4.5 V motor
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Is it okay to run a 4.5 V motor with the handy board's 9V motor driver as long as the pulse in only on <=50% of the time? (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | sonar and overflow
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Hi I've got a HB with an Exp-Board and the 6500 Polaroid Sonar Ranging Module. I want to measure distances greater than about 2.7m. So I tried to count the overflow flag at 0x1025 bit 7. But my counter runs to fast, that means it count more than the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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