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Subject: 
Re: Interfaced your Sonar with HB
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Date: 
Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:09:42 GMT
Original-From: 
Kam Leang <kleang@eng.utah.eduSTOPSPAM>
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Hi Everyone!
It looks like Frankie Lai has found a way to interface the sonar I have on
my site to the HB.  Here are his comments:

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Frankie Lai wrote:

Hi, Kam Leang,

I'm a student studying EE in HongKong Polytechnic University. My final year
project is to build a hexapod, and I had tried to build a sonar based on
your design, and trying to interfacing it to the HandyBoard.

Now, I'm pleased to tell you that your circuit can be interfaced with HB
easily just use the Polaroid driver provided in MIT site.

Of course, a little bit modification is need, haha, very easy......
1..Connect the ping line to PD4.
2..Connect the echo line to A0 through a NOT gate. According to the driver,
the echo signal should be "1" when detected.

And I had successed in getting results, it is very sensitive.
Thank you for your designs, I can save a lot of money now, haahaa.

hihi,
me again......I think you know already, but I would like to precise it.
The echo line through NOT gate is then connect to port A0, that is the
sensor input 7 on HB.

Thanks Frankie!

-kam



Frankie Lai    97139371d@polyu.edu.hk


----- Original Message -----
From: Kam Leang <kleang@eng.utah.edu>
To: Frankie Lai <97139371d@polyu.edu.hk>
Cc: <handyboard@media.mit.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 7:35 AM
Subject: Re: Non-polaroid Sonar


Hi Everyone!
If anyone gets the interface to work, I'd love to post it on my site along
with the appropriate references and credits.  It would be neat if the
sensor works with the HB!

Good luck!
-kam
http://www.leang.com/kam

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Frankie Lai wrote:

Hi all,
I'm now building the ultrasonic sensor from kam leang's page, did anyone
interface it with handyboard?? Can anyone give me some advice on driving • it?

thanks
Frankie Lai 97139371d@polyu.edu.hk


In lugnet.robotics.handyboard, Will Bain <willb@selway.umt.edu> writes:
Adam Oliver wrote:
Just so I'm clear, ref pink book page 10-17.
Does the "bit_set( 0x1021, 1 );" refer to bit 0 -EDG3B, and
bit_clear( 0x1021, 2 ); " refer to bit 1 -EDG3A.
This is what was throwing me, I always thought bits started at zero • and
ended at 7, not 1 to 8 as appears to be the case here. Is this what • the
"zero-indexed " means?

sorry if it's a basic question, but if you don't ask you never learn • :-)

No, that's a very good question. It had me confused, too. The second • argument
to bit_set and bit_clear is not actually the index of a bit at all; it's • a bit
mask.

For example, when you do bit_set( 0x1021, 3 ), the 3 becomes 0000 0011 • in
binary, so it will set the last two bits of the address. Hope this • helps!

-- Will


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Kam Leang                                |  |______|  |______
University of Utah                       |  |_    _|  |_    _|
Department of Mechanical Engineering     |  | |  | |  | |  |
MEB Room 2202 Salt Lake City, UT 84112   |  |_|__|_|  | |  |
Tel.801.581.7105  Fax.801.585.9825       \ ___________/ |  |
http://www.leang.com/kam                      |  |______|  |
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                                         ______    ______
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Kam Leang                                |  |______|  |______
University of Utah                       |  |_    _|  |_    _|
Department of Mechanical Engineering     |  | |  | |  | |  |
MEB Room 2202 Salt Lake City, UT 84112   |  |_|__|_|  | |  |
Tel.801.581.7105  Fax.801.585.9825       \ ___________/ |  |
http://www.leang.com/kam                      |  |______|  |
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