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 th
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
A robot is a machine—especially one Computer program, programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions Automation, automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the robot control, co ...
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Handy Board specs
*
68HC11 8-bit
microcontroller @ 2 MHz
* 32KB battery-backed
SRAM
* 2x16 LCD character display
* Support for four 1A motors
* 6 Servo motor controllers
* 7 Digital and 9 Analog inputs
* 8 Digital and 16 Analog outputs
* Infrared I/O capabilities
* Serial interface capabilities
* Sound output
* 11 cm x 8.5 cm x 5.25 cm (lxwxh – with battery, expansion board, and lcd screen)
References
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External links
Official Handy Board websiteSourceforge page for UMass Lowell Handy Board Bootloader (George Pantazopoulos, Mike Bohan)GNU binutils+gcc port for the m68hc1x
Robotics hardware