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OK. Try -not-loading the last three of these libs and see if you have any joy. Fred (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Fred- Sorry for the late response as we have not been around for Spring Break, but you requested a list of the files that come up when IC loads: lib_hb.lis, lib_hb.c, lib_hb.icb, libexpbd.icb, expsens.c, expservo.icb, explego.icb, sonar.c, (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Please see (URL) to see if your modem cable is wired properly. Fred In your message you said: (...) (24 years ago, 12-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi. Can anyone out there help me! I am trying to hook up my handyboard to a serial modem but it doesn't work. My setup is a cross-serial cable connected to the external serial board of the handyboard. I have tried hooking up the handyboard with the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I am a Form 5 student in Hong Kong and my English is not so good...Please forgive me for that... I have bought a handyboard with expansion board. I am going to join a Techno-Pet robot competition. My design consist of 8 DC motors, but the handyboard (...) (24 years ago, 11-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hello, Has anyone ever interfaced the Stamp to the Handy Board. I am thinking about using the SPI port on the HB to do this. I truly appreciate any assistance. Guillermo (24 years ago, 11-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hey all: How fast does the HandyBoard with the standard interactive C libraries execute standard IC instructions? What about the software system interrupt at 1kHz and the multitasking overhead, how do they play into things? I know float instructions (...) (24 years ago, 10-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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In 1999 someone requested information on how to interface I2C and the Handyboard. I would like to revisit that request. Any information on components and code to use would be appreciated. Andrew P. Loy andyl@citlink.net aloy1@utk.edu (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Yes, it can be used to control a drill motor, but probably not directly. It can drive 9V motors at 1 AMP (i think, depending on which h-bridge chips you have). I'm sure a drill motor will draw more than 1 amp, so you will need to use external power (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, All. I'm new to the list, but I was wondering if the handy board could be used to control something like a 7.2V cordless drill that you could get from Home depot? (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Tim, Please try the serial loopback test noted at (URL) will verify your cables and the comms path back from the HB to your PC. Fred In your message you said: (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi All, This problem has been addressed many times before, but I have yet to find a solution. I have come accross a handyboard that has been sitting around for a while, and I decided to refresh its internal program. To do this I have tried all of (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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First, I am new to this newsgroup, so hello everybody! Second, I was just curious about how many of you (meaning people on this list) are building or have built robots for the Trinity College Fire Fighting Contest? Especially if you made one for the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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"It's a primitive" means that it's defined in the machine code, in the runtime engine. You can look through the source to pcode.asm to see how stuff works... (URL) . Fred In your message you said: (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I'm trying to locate the actual code that comprises mseconds(), but all I can find is a statement saying that mseconds is now an IC primitive. Is there anyway someone can direct me to that code? Thanks in advance (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi all: I've modified the HandyBoard by cutting the PCB trace as detailed at (URL) and I have a couple of questions before I destroy something. I'm connecting two 1500mAh 7.2V NiCd batteries in series to the 4-pin motor power header, and I'll be (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Rob, a few Q's: 1. Can you verify that +9v is being applied to the sensor by transistor Q2. Measure the voltage at the collector, you should see a pulsed waveform (rectangular wave) with +9v on's and 0v off's. (Refer to (URL) What is the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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This is a follow up to my original question about the rotation sensor. When we hooked the sensor up to the oscilloscpe and the Handy Board, we could see the voltage transitions on the scope. Now, we truned the sensor very slow (about 2 ticks per (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hello everybody, A few years ago I was a regular member of this newsgroup. For my master's thesis I made an autonomous robot that could communicate with a desktop PC using a pair of radio transceivers (RadioMetrix BiM-418-F). The results of the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard) !
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I would like to use Legos IR tower and the Lego remote control to control my Handyboard. What I am looking for is some code to decode IR signals using the built in IR receiveron PA2. Has anyone done that before? THX Chris (24 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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There aren't user-adjustable thresholds in my Exp Board LEGO rotation sensor code. Rob, could it be that you are spinning the sensor too fast? In the docs there is a note that it only can deal with 16 rotations per sec. Fred In your message you (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Tweek your thresholds! (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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We are using the expansion board libraries to drive the lego rotaion sensor and seem to be getting funny output to the handy board. We hooked up the sensor to the oscilloscope and we can see the voltage transitions on the screen, but the Handy (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | reading sensors
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Hi everyone, I'm trying to hook up a moisture sensor to the HB but having some errors. These are resistive type sensors so I have it connected to the grnd and signal on the HB of the analog ports. After connecting to the HB, at the C prompt I tried (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi. I am building a mobile robot, which should operate during days continued in external enviroments. For this reason I need to replace the voltage adapter of my HB for Lead Acid batteries. I plan to use some Lead Acid batteries like primary feeding (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Rainer, thank you, this will most definatly help. It is good that i will not have to desighn this from scratch. (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Hi Andy, we did it the way you described, but with a 6.270 board (little brother of handy-board). We earned performance on 6.270 with it, because the only thing we had to do is to parse the string received from serial port. We attached a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Thanks for the insight, I am sorry that I did not mention the main controller would be a Handyboard (implied though due to the news group). This is still a good point and has given me a lot to think about. The slave controller would continue until (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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The advantage of distributed processing is that you can take a sometimes considerable load off the main MCU. Consider a speed regulator: a sensor is needed to continuously monitor the speed at which the wheels are turning and adjustments in motor (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I have noticed low cost PICs (such as OOPic) that are capable of controlling (and getting useful data out of) devices like the Polaroid sonar rangefinder and other devices. Is there a benefit in delegating processing tasks such as this to a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi from France ! I have assembled a Handy Board that works well with the original 9.6 V battery pack, but I would now use a separate power source with bigger motors to have more torque (I use a 7.2 V propulsion pack, with a H-bridge system). Since (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi, I am a begginer programer and I'd like to know if there is anyone out there who has written code for there handy board bot that I could get and learn from? I have all of libraries from the HB site, but nothing that does a full routine that I can (...) (24 years ago, 13-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) First off, beware that ordinary tap water contains dissolved impurities and is electrically conductive. (Water itself, BTW, is actually an insulator - it's the dissolved impurities that give it conductivity). It usually isn't an issue with (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Check out this site!
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Terry Gathright came across this great site and thought you might want to check it out. We hope you enjoy it! (URL) Gathright wrote: Hi Guys, Check this location for some hi power motor drivers, I have ordered two of the 35 amp boards and will let (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: downloading pcode
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Make sure that your phone wire between the HB and interface board has four wires, most generic phone wires only have two wires in them. -Dan (...) and (...) MAX232 (...) I (...) any (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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James, maybe a moisture sensor out of a VCR could be modified to meet your needs??? They are made to detect condensation in VCR's. but if all else fails... water is a conductor, so you could theoreticly just put two bare contacts on the outer part (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Short Circute Problem -- EMERGENCY
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Raju, I have a handyboard version 1.21, on this board the battery led is working properly when it lights at power on and then goes off. According to the manual it should only remain lit when the power is too low indicating a dead battery. So I (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Brian, I had the same problem with a board I built. It turned out to be the memory was bad. I would check all the solder connections to the memory socket and make sure that it is seated properly. -DAN (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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