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 projects.
Handy Board specs
*
68HC11 8-bit
microcontroller
A microcontroller (MCU for ''microcontroller unit'', often also MC, UC, or μC) is a small computer on a single VLSI integrated circuit (IC) chip. A microcontroller contains one or more CPUs (processor cores) along with memory and programmable i ...
@ 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