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20612
Hi All, Battery went dead on my BX-24p on Parallax BOE board. When I put in new batteries, the red and green LEDs on the BX24p board are on without my ...
Tim Chapman
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Jan 1, 2006
11:57 am
20613
... Look at the IDE Project/Chip pulldown menu. Are they checked on there? Tom...
Tom Becker
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Jan 1, 2006
12:17 pm
20614
Thank you, That was it. Tim Chapman tim@... TEC Computer Services www.teccs.biz (602) 486-0502 ... From: basicx@yahoogroups.com...
Tim Chapman
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Jan 1, 2006
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20615
... job,shouldn't ... Will, _I_ have a quadrant photodiode as a sensor. I have not been able to find anything better when I recently looked. But, there are ...
arhodes19044
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Jan 1, 2006
4:14 pm
20616
I think that i see your point Tony.So you mean that i can connect a photodiode to a basicX A2D but first i have to determine what a very strong light beam and...
naimead
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Jan 1, 2006
4:37 pm
20617
Would a pin-hole camera style work? That would limit the direct exposure. Use a photodiode or photo resistor...but still keep your array Thad naimead...
Thad Larson
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Jan 1, 2006
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20618
Naimead, don't we know enough about the Sun and Earth to _calculate_ the Sun's apparent position with very good accuracy, fully open-loop? BasicX can do that,...
Tom Becker
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Jan 1, 2006
5:26 pm
20622
Right now it seems less complicated to try to trace the sun than to calculate its trajectory since i am not an astronomer too Tom. So what we need is a...
naimead
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Jan 1, 2006
9:55 pm
20623
... Define your hardware and the task, Naimead. Do you mean Az/El? Is the scope on a polar mount? What motor control do you have? What scope? What is the...
Tom Becker
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Jan 1, 2006
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20624
It is a usual telescope in which i am planning to add two motors in its base(i need some help to decide the proper one).The first motor is going to move the...
naimead
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Jan 1, 2006
10:52 pm
20625
< ... if [] the light is stronger 25 degrees left and 30 degrees up... You've described an Azimuth/Elevation drive, I think. Look that up. "25 degrees left"...
Tom Becker
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Jan 2, 2006
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20626
Naimead, Tracking the sun can be done many ways. Be sure you pick a safe one. I have used the concept shown below with good success. If you have an Equatorial...
eserdahl@
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Jan 2, 2006
12:03 am
20627
... It probably would work, possibly very well. I just used a tall + shaped cardboard divider between the photodiodes. The cardboard creates a little shadow...
arhodes19044
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Jan 2, 2006
12:49 am
20628
... to ... The quadrant photodiode is one possible answer. But it requires a good starting position to be obtained manually. I had designed this to work as...
arhodes19044
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Jan 2, 2006
1:16 am
20629
... Light commercial... I've seen it a few times tonight. It is credited, like a music video, briefly at the start of the clip. Someone with Tivo might try...
Tom Becker
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Jan 2, 2006
4:27 am
20630
... I didn't record it, but it looked like just the standard artist/title/album tag you see at the beginning & end of music videos. Bob NO6B...
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Jan 2, 2006
7:12 am
20631
Thank you guys...I will give a shot with a photodiode.Just a final question:do we need two photodiodes(one for x-axis and one for y-axis) or just one will...
naimead
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Jan 2, 2006
1:31 pm
20632
I have a BX-24 running a pipe organ scanning routine and one of its modes is to output data in MIDI format which requires a baud rate of 31,250 and setting...
wurlitzer28
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Jan 2, 2006
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20633
Why not use the MIDI input on your PC? ... From: "wurlitzer28" <craig.whitley@...> To: <basicx@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 8:02 AM...
Sloan Thrasher
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Jan 2, 2006
2:31 pm
20634
... Sloan! My laptop only has a conventional RS232 port and its associated driver will not allow my VB's WinAPI call to change the baud rate to 31,250 because...
wurlitzer28
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Jan 2, 2006
4:54 pm
20635
... Cheaper than using a MAX3100 or similar SPI UART running at 2MHz/4? Why not offload MIDI timing and completely free up COM1? Tom...
Tom Becker
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Jan 2, 2006
6:08 pm
20636
Hello, I am using the Bx-24 for a datalogging application. I modified the data logging software I found from basicx's site, and I'm having problems sampling...
npoz0
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Jan 3, 2006
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20637
Hi, I needed to to use three serial device with the Basic X .. 1- quadravox speech chip QV306m1 2- Pololu motor controller 3- Serial servo controller. They all...
sunilstm
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Jan 3, 2006
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20638
... Debug.Print is a diagnostic tool that is heavy and slow; it's really a cheat to get some easy output. You will probably improve your performance...
Tom Becker
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Jan 3, 2006
2:32 am
20639
... Every 0.02 seconds is 50Hz not 20Hz. ... I have cleaned up your code and made it work correctly. See the "busy" loop below which gets up to a count of 172...
Mike Perks
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Jan 3, 2006
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20641
... Another choice that Mike did not list in his reply was to choose different devices that use a different interface. For example, you should be able to find...
Don Kinzer
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Jan 3, 2006
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20642
... converter... ... Tom, thanks for your input. As I do have a spare BX-24 it is cheaper for this one time only application although I would still like to ...
wurlitzer28
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Jan 3, 2006
2:45 pm
20643
Hi, Appreciate if anyone could recommend me a Key / Number (0 to 9, including # & *) Pad, without taking up more than 6pins of my BasicX- 24. If possible, with...
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Jan 3, 2006
3:09 pm
20644
... The required divisor is proprotional to the CPU clock frequency. Since the clock frequency of the P version is the same, the divisor is also the same. The...
Don Kinzer
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Jan 3, 2006
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20645
... is ... will ... Thanks Don, that's good to know! Craig...
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