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Hello- I have decided to learn how to program the Handyboard in assembler for a class, but I am having trouble finding example code to start with. I have been able to download things to the board and run them, but I don't know if they work because I (...) (22 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Problem connecting Lego light sensors to the analog ports
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HI, I faced some problems while I was using the Lego Light sensors on the Handy Board. I'm fitting 2 lego rotation sensors and a light sensor on the Board. According to the documetaion available, I understand that I can use the light sensors in the (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: HB DC Motors
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Hi, You can try to remove the buzzer on the board, then test beep() function. If the board does not freeze up, that means there is a problem on the buzzer itself. Thanks and Best Regards, Patrick Hui --00---...--- R O B O T S T O R E ( H K ) -- Home (...) (22 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HB DC Motors
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Please help me. All the commands from IC to HB work fine.e.g. analog test, digital test, printf to LCD, etc. But, when I write the command "beep();" the board makes a continuous noise and freezes up. IC reports "board not responding. Same thing (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Lithium ion rechatgeable battery & handyboard?
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Dear, Hi, i am currently works on a wheeled mobile robot project. I need a 12v external power supply to power my 3 minimotors (12V & 4.2watt) since handyboard only can support up to 9v and 1 amp. I want something light and provide high amp. I found (...) (22 years ago, 15-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: More Battery Questions
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Replacement battery options are listed on the HB FAQ, at: (URL) don't you get the 1000 mAh packs from Radio Shack? That would give you 2x the run time of the 500 mAh packs. Take longer to charge, but would require no other board mods. Fred (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | More Battery Questions
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Hi, First I wanted to thank the handful of people that responded to my previous question about HB batteries. We seem to be getting by using Fred's suggestions, basically being more careful about charging, using ZAP mode to pull up really dead packs, (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | I just did a quick scout around and....
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(...) A few minutes ago, my curiosity got the better of me about this, so I did a quick scout about on the web and found this: (URL) I'm not trying to endorse this company in particular, I'm mentioning it here as an example of what I was referring (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Handyboards for Dummies, etc.
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(...) Well, first of all, injection moulding may not have to be the only option. Thermoforming may be another alternative that to my understanding does not carry anywhere near the initial expense as injection moulding. Secondly, what might make it (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Handyboards for Dummies, etc.
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A case as you describe it would be nice. To me it's largely a cost issue. Custom plastic is expensive to set up -- thousands of dollars for an injection mold. Anyone care to open-source a design? That would be a start :-). Fred (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Handyboards for Dummies, etc.
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Can someone please enlighten me as to why the handyboard is only available as a bare motherboard? Although that may be fine for experiments in controlled environments, it doesn't work at all well for less than ideal circumstances such as out of (...) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Handyboard and 1400 mAh NiMH battery
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Hey -- I like your device. That's a nice addition to the HB. I would like if you would modify your assertion "However these days NiCd battery are hard to find and not very effecient" (sic). This is not true. Despite the technical superiority of (...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Handyboard and 1400 mAh NiMH battery
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Hi I have developed Handyboard battery charger addon ckt which replaces the 47 ohm resistor on handy board battery charger. this battery charger ckt let you put NiMH battery up to 1600 mAh without woring overcharging and other problem. if you are (...) (22 years ago, 8-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HB and Pocket PC
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Hi, I’d like to get my Handy Board communicating with my Pocket PC(HP Jornada) via the Pocket PC’s IrDA and the Handy Board’s IR port. Has anyone of you ever tried that? Your help would be really appreciated! Best regards, Jan (22 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: HB Sun tracking system
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Hi You need 4 photo-resistor and two small plattes like "walls" (e.g. built with lego). On your device you mount one platte horizontal and the other vertical. The two small walls have to be mounted rectangular to your device in the direction to the (...) (22 years ago, 2-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Interactive C Version 4
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Fred, Can you tell me if Randy upgraded InteractiveC in version 4 to handle the 64k hack for the Handyboard? You wrote about the hack in the Handyboard FAQ in '98, and that was two IC versions ago. Is it possible that Randy took into acount the 64k (...) (22 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | HB Sun tracking system
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I am just about finished assembling with HB. I want to build a system to track the sun. I have some ideas on how, but I am little rusty both in hardware and software. I asking any of you have something to help me in my project. I really appreciated. (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Upgading HB to 64K
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My bad, the link I gave yesterday is to IC4, Randy Sargent's wonderful freeware version of InteractiveC for the Handyboard. The links to the 64k hack to the Handyboard are at the simpleRTJ site, which are ... www.rtjcom.com/6811/hb.html (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Upgading HB to 64K
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Peter and all on lugnet.robotics.handyboard, The link Peter gave on Oct 14, 1999 is now dead! The new link is ... www.kipr.org/ic/download Randy Sargent now works for the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, and has his work on IC3 and IC4 there. (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Handy Board for sale
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Hi, forgive me if you already saw this note on the Handy Board Yahoo group. I have a Handy Board that is over two years old I'd like to sell. It has been stored in a project box so it is still in great condition. I just recharged it and downloaded (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Over Charging
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Fred, We had the same problem and traced it to the resistor. We can try the ZAP mode, but for future reference we would like to know the value you used to replace the 47 Ohm 1/2 watt resistor. Any chance we could get that information? Thanks, Dan (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Over Charging
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When the batteries are really run down, they can draw too much current through the on-board charging circuit. (I'm assuming you are plugging adapters directly to the HBs, rather than going through the serial interface/phone line charge ckt.) About 6 (...) (22 years ago, 3-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Over Charging
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I have a collection of HandyBoards I'm trying to prepare for class this fall. They're a few years old now and have seem some fairly heavy use. I'm having trouble charging them and am hoping there's a component to replace or something I can fix to (...) (22 years ago, 3-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: assembler time delay?
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Tomas, NOP is the easiest way while staying within a single program. If you want to measure long periods of time, you could attach some code to the 2khz interrupt timer (documented in the handyboard manual). Just setup a memory space to use as a (...) (22 years ago, 24-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | assembler time delay?
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Hello, Is there any other way, than using NOP repeated times, to create time delays in assembler? Regards, Tomas (22 years ago, 23-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Rob Murray - Lego rotation sensor and sonar.c?
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Hi I am thinking of purchasing a couple of lego angle sensors for odometry purposes. I read in a previous post that some were having problems with these and the sonar.c file. Was this ever resolved? David. (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | PS2 mouse software for handyboard
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Almost two years ago I wrote PS2 drivers for the handyboard so I could use two optical mice on my robot. I got it working but its very buggy. The source code is something like 11 pages of assembly but could probably be shortened a bit. Some of the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | I2C
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Hi, I recently got a Daventech SRF08 ultrasonic ranging sensor, thinking it was the same as the SRF04, except with greater range. However it is not even close, instead of the echo and init lines it uses an I2C bus to communicate. So my Question is (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Cricket spoken here?
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Is this newsgroup suitable for Handy Cricket discussion? I guess I mean: 1. Would anyone object? 2. Would anyone listen? --Jack Gregory (22 years ago, 16-Aug-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | SPI configuration
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How should I configure the SPI (master) in order to communicate with a slave that has a single bi-directional data line? I guess I should tie the MISO and MOSI pins together at the HB. Then what? Should I enable or disable the SPI? Or should I maybe (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Connect the ADNS-2030 optical mouse sensor to the Handy Board
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(...) (22 years ago, 15-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | serial wiring problems
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Hi, I’d like to connect a PAK VI PS/2 coprocessor to the Handyboard using its serial port. I’ve taken a RJ-11 telephone cable and cut it into two pieces, so that I’ve got on one side the leads of the cable without the RJ-11 plug which I want to (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | New blank Handy board PCB for sale
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HI I have some surplus Handy board (blank) PCB for sale. If you are interested have look at (URL) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: start_process question....
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(...) first off, "proicess_name" should be "process_name", but thats not your problem. You are trying to use an integer as an array in this snippet. You have "int process_priority;" and then try to treat it as an array in "process_priority[pid]=1;" (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | start_process question....
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I am writing a program based mainly on Fred Martin's book. The code is prety close to his program, but when I try to load I keep getting the following error codes, "attempt to use <int> as an array", and, "too many argumentd given to , (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | is it possible to use the lego vision command with the handyboard?
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I'm interested in using the lego vision command with my handyboard. But it seems to use a (usb) port. So is there a way to use a (usb) with the handyboard? And has anyone ever attempted to hack the lego vision command for their handyboard? Also does (...) (22 years ago, 4-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | external power source with expansion board
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Hi, I know this has been asked before, but I was unable to find a deffinitive answer. I cut the trace on my handy board in order to externally power some larger dc motors with two 6 volt gel cell packs wired in series for 12 volts. Unfortunately, (...) (22 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Robot Positioning using Beacons
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Would a HandyCricket be good for driving the beacons? "Chris Steiger" <csteiger@comcast.net> wrote in message news:GvGHKu.2wr@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Robot Positioning using Beacons
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That sounds good, but what do I use to drive each beacon, (e.g. send out the coded IR signal and sonar ping). Using a full blown microcontroller like the handyboard for each one would be incredibly expensive and wasteful. I only need a controller (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: optical mouse as sensor?
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Hi Scott, You should consider taking the mouse appart and hooking up directly to the sensor. Most (all?) optical mice use sensors made by Agilent Technologies (formely part of HP). The early mice used the HDNS2000 sensor which had a PS/2 mode and a (...) (22 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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