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    Re: Handy Board and 6 legged bots. —Stephen Michael
   I would love to be able to use serial controlled boards with the Handyboard. Given that it only has one serial port which is used for programming, won't this be a problem? (...) (28 years ago, 13-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
   
        Re: Handy Board and 6 legged bots. —marco antonio assfalk oliveira
      Greetings, The serial port could be used after downloading the program code into memory for other purposes (such as controlling the mini-ssc board). However, I have not found any reference to RS-232C port IC commands, so one would have to build (...) (28 years ago, 13-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
   
        Re: Handy Board and 6 legged bots. —Barry Brouillette
     (...) No problem at all. You connect two boards to the same serial line and there is a jumper on the SSC which configures it for either servos 0-7 or servos 8-15. When you send a command to set servo 15 to position 87 it "does the right thing". The (...) (28 years ago, 14-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
   
        Re: Handyboard Serial Communications —Stephen Michael
   After parsing the Handyboard mail archive, it sounds like what I need is the SPI port. Unless someone has other advice, I'll research this path. At this point, my overall plans are to construct my 'Bot as follows: 1. Use the Handyboard for motor (...) (28 years ago, 14-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
 

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