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Firts of all, excuse me to post this over this Newsgroup, but I Couldn't find any active group for the miniboard. That said, I bought a miniboard(already assemble),download all of the technical and program from the ftp site, but every time I tried (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RoboFest 2002(http://www.robofest.net)
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The third annual RoboFest competition is being held at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Mi on April 27, 2002. The competition portion of Robofest called RoboRescuers, is unique this year, due to the fact that participants need to (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Two big robot events in April in New England!
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The Trinity College Fire-fighting Home Robots Contest is celebrated in the current issue of Dr. Dobbs' Journal (April 2002) in Ed Nisley's Embedded Space column (he's part of the event.) Ed's column was to me the most compelling feature of this (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Two big robot events in April in New England!
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Dear all, Mark your calendars for the premier robot events of spring in New England: SATURDAY, APRIL 6: ROBOTIC PARK AT PEACE DALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, Peace Dale, Rhode Island. Now in its eighth year, this is by far the biggest gathering of (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Rug Warrior
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Hi Liam, I have tried this.You'll have difficulties with the software drivers, especially with the microphone, the ir ranger, the PID controler etc., because the Rug Warrior board has another port configuration than the HB has. Furthermore the HB (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Rug Warrior
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Does anyone know if Rug warrior program in the book "Mobile Robots - Inspiration to implementation" can be run on a Handyboard? Has anyone run the Rug Warrior on Handyboard/Lego kit? Can the handyboard facilitate the same components? Thanks Liam (22 years ago, 10-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | JBug11 - new freeware Windows HC11 monitor/debugger
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Hey all, People looking for HC11 utilities should be real interested in this one. JBug11 by John Beatty is a Windows 32-bit monitor/debugger for 68HC11 MCU's. As John states on his site, "Its development was inspired by the difficulty of running (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | burned chip?
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Hi everyone, I've recently put together a handyboard kit. The construction went fine and I was very impressed with the step by step instructions provided from handyboard.com. Anyway, the board just stopped working after just two days of usage. I (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | analog ports on handyboard?
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We are trying to use the Analog Ports with the Sharp GP2D12 and a potentiometer and are having difficulty with ports 0 -3. When we write to the ADCTL register to read any ports 0 - 3, it reads the respective high ports. For example, when we want to (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Echoing printf to terminal
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this is from george musser. enjoy. - fred My advanced library of routines ((URL) includes a kludgy way to echo printf() to the IC command line. Look at the function iprintf() in the file advlib_utility.c. The routine sets up a character pointer to (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Echoing printf to terminal
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i don't know this offhand. you'd have to assemble the pcode source and look and see where it ends up. it's a ring buffer tho' so it might be a little tricky. you'd be better off patching the lcd print interrupt routine (it unspools one char per ms (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Echoing printf to terminal
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this is non-trivial. The -loopback option isn't what you think it is; it's a flag telling the downloader that the low-level serial ckt has a hardware echo. it's relevant to an earlier 6811 design (the mini board), not the HB design. this would (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Interactive C
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You have to coerce the int to a float, e.g: int i= 7; float j= 3.; float result; result = j * (float)i; The above should work. Please let me know if not. Fred (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Echoing printf to terminal
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Hi folks, We have been looking for a way to echo the printf()s on LCD to the IC terminal on host computer (using 2.86 - freeware). IC has a -loopback option, but apparently that only works for HB rev 1.5 and earlier. Is there a way to do this with (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Interactive C
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(Perhaps this isn't the right place to ask questions about I.C. but it is related to the handy board so I will continue) I am trying to write a program that uses the lego sensors and multiplies them by constants that are floats. The expansion board (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | come to the First Annual New England Botfest, Saturday, March 9th!
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All, We're looking for people to bring robots, robotic gadgets, or any other sort of robotic invention/art/contra...n/whatever to our first annual New England Botfest. The BotFest is on Saturday March 9, 2002, at the UMass Lowell campus in Lowell, (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Handyboard, Servo motors
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Hi, You can check the link of how to hook up servo (look for by Gary Livick's contribution): (URL) will be easy if you have HB Expansion board since you just connect the servo directly into it. The servo library is already there for the expansion (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Handyboard, Servo motors
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I'm working on some research with the Handyboard, and I don't know too much about programming it yet. I've figured out how to work the DC motors but not the servo motors, I think I've attached the pins correctly to the wires on the servo motor but I (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | fwd: high currents kill handyboard?
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From: "Tanya Tickel" <sti398@merle.it.nor...stern.edu> Date: Sat Feb 16, 2002 10:47:20 AM US/Eastern Subject: high currents kill handyboard? Hi, If this could be forwarded to the LUGNET group, I'd be grateful. as of yet I haven't gotten permission. (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Connecting RX to Handyboard
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Hi all, I'd like to build a radio controlled robot and I wish to connect a radio receiver normally used for model airplanes to the Handyboard so it can receive the commands I send from the transmitter, check for sensor and then activate servos that (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Srial problem
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Hi. I am putting together a Handyboard and have been having success until it came time to test the bootstrap mode. The interface board's voltages check out and it blinks as it attempts to download. I am using an E1 and the Mac 6811 downloader. The E (...) (22 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sensor Connector
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The LEGO shaft encoder and light sensor are active sensors that need a special circuit. The Expansion Board for the HB provides this ckt and the requisite drivers. Your simplest path to using these with the HB is to get an Exp Bd. Barring that, you (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sensor Connector
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(...) Thanks, I thought there might be a special connector but I see now that its a standard enough connector. Another question: How can I get the handy board to read from the lego rotation sensor and the lego light sensor? I can get the touch (...) (22 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sensor Connector
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Info on doing this is at (URL) . The male strip header is 929400-01-36-ND from Digikey. Fred (...) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sensor Connector
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(...) Oh, that's easy. Just check out your local electronics store. I don't know if there is a Fry's Electronics in your area, but they have them. Radio Shack? I don't know, but I would assume anyone who sells electronic components would have them. (...) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sensor Connector
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(...) Actually what I was looking for was how to make the male header pins to connect to the HB. Is there anywhere to buy them or how did you make them. Thanks for your answer, brendan (22 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sensor Connector
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(...) Actually, you can make a half way decent replica of the Lego two plate high connector at this point quite easily. When you prepare the 2x2 piece of the electric plate, cut the center circular section away from the underneath. Then, solder the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sensor Connector
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I've bought some lego electric plates (part 5037) from lego.com, and they seem to be withstanding the heat of a soldering iorn quite well (that was my fear... that I would turn them into bubbling messes). Actually they're holding up better than the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Sensor Connector
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I currently have lego motors and wires that I have used with the RCX but now Im using the Handy Board. The book explains how to connect the motor to the handy board by connecting a wire to a sensor connector but it doesnt state where to get such a (...) (22 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Premature announcement of Interactive C 4.0
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Actually, Fred's announcement is a little premature, sorry. Several important things to know if you do choose to download the current version of IC: 1) The libraries are tuned for the Botball contest (www.botball.org) and by default include a (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Interactive C Version 4 is available for free download
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Hi everyone, Randy sent me the enclosed msg which answers some of Scott's questions. Or at least, indicates they will be answered. I'd suggest we wait for Randy to update things as he indicates he will, and then later fire away with questions to (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Interactive C Version 4 is available for free download
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(...) To answer my own question, look in ./Interactive C 4.0/RCX/lib_rcx.doc for a list of RCX specific functions. To summarize the important ones: IC NQC ---...--- fd(A/B/C) OnFwd() bk(A/B/C) OnRev() brake(A/B/C) Off() off(A/B/C) Float() (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: External motor power and expansion board combo problem?
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Duncan, You've done a good analysis of the potential impact of changing the motor supply to an external source....when you are using the Expansion Board. Undoubtedly there are several ways to accomplish what you want, but the way I did it DOES (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Interactive C Version 4 is available for free download
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Hi Fred Is there a summary of the new features developed in IC 4 ? From the Newton Labs IC 3.x page they list the improvements over the freeware (2.x) version as: (...) Does the 4.x pcode support structs/multidimensional arrays ? What extras does (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Interactive C Version 4 is available for free download
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(...) I started playing with this on the RCX last night. Is there a README somewhere on the RCX-specific aspects of the firmware? eg I noticed analog() isn't supported to read raw sensor readings, although digital() works to read passive touch (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | External motor power and expansion board combo problem?
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I wish to make the small mod to allow for external power to the motor outputs of the main board. However, this seems to cause several potential problems with the expansion board. First, the motor power connector is occupied by the motor power (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Why can't we manipulate TMSK1
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Hello, We have some problems to manipulate TMSK1(address is 0x1022). We wrote the following test code: test.c ***...*** ***** void main() { int i, j; printf("\n"); i=peek(0x1022); printf("TMSK1=%d ", i); j=0x00; poke(0x1022, j); i=peek(0x1022); (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Interactive C Version 4 is available for free download
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Hi! When I first fired up IC 4 it was wiithout the expansion board, and the HB booted fine. I suppose you could save some memory and processor time if you didn't load the expansion board libraries.) The list of files it downloads seem to be in (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Crispy Fried Sonar Board?
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Yep I got this box of goods from Acroname, containing a sonar module and some servos. promptly tore it open, soldered the sonar jack to the board, and then apparently plugged the cable in backwards. When it didn't work, I put my hand on the sonar (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Help for measuring pulse width
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Hello, We are trying to write the code to measure the pulse width which is less than 1ms. We use the input capture ports to generate the interrupts. We wrote the interrupt service subroutine by assembly language. But since this is the first time for (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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