Robo-Rats Handy Board Page

The Handy Board is the "brains" of your Robo-Rat.  It is a hand-held, battery-powered microcontroller board that controls all the sensors and motors of your robot.  The Motorola 6811 microcontroller can be programmed using an assembler or compiler, or with Interactive C--an interpreted version of the C language.  For this course we will be using Interactive C because it provides an convenient environment to explore/control your robot.

Before referring to the resource pages below, you are advised to read through the Handy Board Technical Reference.  If you do not have a printed copy, you can refer to the online version.

DRL Handy Board resource pages:

• pcode interpreter
• Interactive C
• USB->serial adapter instructions
• DRL Daughterboard
• Handy Board + DRL Daughterboard memory map and memory access functions
• Reading the daughterboard quadrature decoder/counter interface ICs

External Handy Board resource pages:

• The Handy Board page
• The Newton Labs Interactive C page (commercial version of Interactive C)
• Jon Howell's Handy Board resources page

Datasheets:

• Motorola MC68HC11 microcontroller
• Texas Instruments SN754410 quad half-H driver
• Agilent Technologies HRPG series optical encoder
• Agilent Technologies HCTL series quadrature decoder/counter

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Last modified: 04/04/01 22:30