- Handy Board
The Handy Board is a popular handheld robotics controller. The Handy Board was developed at MIT by Fred G. Martin, and was closely based on a previous controller designed by Martin and Randy Sargent for the [http://web.mit.edu/6.270/www/ MIT LEGO Robot Contest] . The Handy Board design is licensed free of charge. Thus, several manufacturers make Handy Boards. The Handy Board is used by hundreds of schools worldwide and by many hobbyists for their
robot projects.Handy Board specs
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68HC11 8-bitmicrocontroller @ 2MHz
* 32KB battery-backed SRAM
* 2x16 LCD character display
* Support for four 1A motors
* Digital and analog I/OExternal links
* [http://www.handyboard.com Official Handy Board website]
* [http://funkmunch.net/hc11-ide/ Handyboard Hackers' Resource Guide] - resources for interacting with the handyboard on a lower level, including a [http://funkmunch.net/hc11-ide/servomod.html 16 servo controller modification] , a bootstrapping, self-relocating talker which accepts verbatim s19 records, and recently a modular kernel and library.
* [http://www.gammaburst.net/robotics/handyboard George Pantazopoulos' Handy Board site]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/hbloader-uml Sourceforge page for UMass Lowell Handy Board Bootloader (George Pantazopoulos, Mike Bohan)]
* [http://www.gnu-m68hc11.org/ GNU binutils+gcc port for the m68hc1x]
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