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Re: Controlling HB using PC serial port
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:46:23 GMT
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Chuck McManis wrote:
> Yes you can. The easiest way is to use some of the digital inputs and
> connect them to the parallel port pins. Then using QuickBasic or any
> parallel port program you can "send" commands to the HandyBoard. If you
> want to use the serial port then I think you have to kick IC out as it
> will try to use the serial port for its console. To do that you have to
> switch to ICC11 or GCC and program the HB directly.
I would posit that the easiest way is to use the serial cable. Then you
don't have to do new cabling or only work with the digital pins which
can also do output. Plus you're not spending your digital ports. You
could also go through the SPI, but I'd prefer to save that for the sonar
and such. Besides, it would also require a little cabling and some more
programming.
If you look at [1] it has some code showing how to work with the
HandyBoard from a Linux machine. The HB side is standard stuff from Fred
Martin. It is true that IC can't be running on either side while you do
this, but you don't have to move to another platform. There's a flag in
the IC OS that tells it not to listen to the serial port for commands.
Once that's set you can send whatever data you want.
I'll put up a Windows version of this stuff later in the week; I need to
package it up nicely this week anyway as we're using it this week in the
lab for our LEGO robotics class here.
[1] http://plan.mcs.drexel.edu/projects/legorobots/software/serlib.html
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| Yes you can. The easiest way is to use some of the digital inputs and connect them to the parallel port pins. Then using QuickBasic or any parallel port program you can "send" commands to the HandyBoard. If you want to use the serial port then I (...) (23 years ago, 25-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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