Hello, I'm running a gentoo linux system with kernel 2.6.19. I have a handyboard and USB board that I got from gleason reasearch. I want to use the open...
... check out http://hc11-ide.funkmunch.net/newbrain/ specifically the Makefile, talker/ and perl scripts for how I talk to my handyboard from linux :)...
As far as the USB is concerned, you just need the FTDI "VCP" (virtual com port) driver. This makes the USB device appear as a serial port to your system,...
Hi, My servo will not operate orer than with the hbtest.c pogram. when I type init_expbd_servos(1);at the c prompt it reurns a random positive or negative five...
Terry, Apparently there is something wrong with your program. What version of IC are you using? The reason I ask is because current versions of IC include a...
Hello Jim, The handyboard LCD display finally gave a message "Library and Firmware Versions Do Not Match" then "Please note that the version (430) of the...
Disregard my posting Jim, I spent the better part of two days beatind my head against the wall to find bad wiring. This was all my fault and not the...
Hello All; I was installing a Vector 2x compass module to the handyboard and when I connected the board to the computer the libraries did not load. I placed...
The SRF08 is an I2C device. There are some examples of I2C interface code in the files section. I haven't used any of them, but if this location can help, that...
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:15:16 +1000, Terry Gathright ... This is the normal startup state of the lcd. It is not told to do anything else in bootstrap mode, so...
Hello, I'm playing around with connecting a large graphic lcd display to the serial output of the handyboard. I have it powered by a separate 9.6 volt battery...
Ty -- the HB's serial int has a bridge rectifier on it, so AC supply is OK. If you plug directly into HB, there is a single diode, so you get half the charge...
Hi all, I wonder if anyone will tell me how to go about incorporating voice recognition capability to my robot; I want the robot to obey simple voice command...
... Well, you could start here: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/internal/courses/robotics/halloffame/2000/team14/sound.html They have info on how to cut some traces...
Hello, Anybody know what happend to the handyboard hacker site? I was going to download and play with ther kernel the guy is developing but the site is down? ...
... sorry, my adsl modem froze.. it does that sometimes. site is back up now, and it's mirrored at hc11-ide.sourceforge.net in case my link goes down again....
Great, thanks for resetting the modem. Do you have a tar.gz file with all of the source to get the thing up and running? I'm also curious about your talker...
at this point I'm the most interested in the talker, sender, and the bootstrap. I get the kernel, lib, and user stuff but I'm still a little unclear about...
... my usual build process consists of the following command: make bootstrap send 'bootstrap' builds the bootstrap, sets serial port to 1200 baud, sends ...
great, thanks for the info. what about having interactive C already installed on the board. I wrote a little assembly language program and tried to download...
... both my bootstrap and kernel take over the reset interrupt when they start, so IC shouldn't interfere once you've successfully used my bootstrap. If you...
so the asm file that I wrote should have overwritten the interrupt table entry for reset with my own program start location. I'm not sure I totally understand...
... The m68hc11 reference manual discusses what happens at startup. During "special" startup (the mode the handyboard uses), an address is fetched from $BFFE...
great, thanks for all the help. I found the manual on your site a while ago and it is great. I've read a bunch of it but haven't looked too hard at the...
hey there, I found a little but in k_talker.c on line 133 I think. Anyway there is a "case default:" that threw an error and I changed it to a "default:". I...
one more little bug... I'm not exactly why this one is causing a problem in my build env - but the top level make file that generates the s19 files from the so...