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microcontrollers-hardware
Embedded Systems Design
Website 202264
http://www.microcontroller.com/
News, product announcements, tutorials, references,
selection guides, and more for the serious microcontroller
developer. You can search for information by
microcontroller brand to help you zero in on the data
you want.
Embedded Systems, Inc. 202164
11931 Hwy. 65 NE
Minneapolis, MN 55434
USA
� (763) 767-2748
� (763) 767-2817
� http://www.embedsys.com/
Makers of low-cost development systems and add-ons
for (among other things) Atmel AVR microcontrollers:
• AVR Sprint 2313 development system
• AVR Sprint 2313 Basic starter kit
• AVR Sprint 2313 microprocessor module
• LCD Display
• Sprint Basic (private label version of BASCOM AVR)
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Eric’s PIC Page 203067
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/pic/
Links, products, and information on using Microchip
PICmicro microcontrollers.
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Gleason Research 202648
P.O. Box 1494
Concord, MA 01742-1464
USA
� (636) 536-7179
� (978) 287-4170
� (800) 265-7727
� http://www.gleasonresearch.com/
Sellers of the MIT Handy Board and Handy Cricket single
board computers. The Handy Board is a favorite at
MIT and for many university and college robotics
courses.
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Handy Board, The 202936
http://www.handyboard.com/
The Handy Board uses a Motorola 68HC11 microcontroller
to build a sophisticated robotics central brain.
The Handy Board is used in many college and university
robotics courses (it was originally developed at
MIT) and is suitable for education, hobby, and industrial
purposes. As the Web site says, “People use the
Handy Board to run robot design courses and competitions
at the university and high school level, build
robots for fun, and control industrial devices.”
The features of the Handy Board are:
• Motorola 68HC11 microcontroller
• 2-line LCD
• Integrated 700mAh ni-cad rechargeable battery
(not included in some versions)
• 8 analog inputs
• 9 digital inputs
• Infrared output and input
• Start and stop buttons
• Piezo buzzer
• 32K battery-backed memory to store programs
• 4 1.1 amp H-bridge motor drivers (not included in
some versions)
• Serial (RS-232) and SPI interfaces
The HandyBoard.com Web site is a facilitator of the
Handy Board; MIT allows the board to be reproduced
by anyone for noncommercial purposes. However, you
may find it easier to get one already made, either assembled
or in form. Vendors are listed on the Web site and
include Gleason Research, The Robot Store in Hong
Kong, and Acroname (all are listed in this book).
A variety of software choices are available for the Handy
Board, but the most common recommended is
Interactive C, a multitasking C language that allows for
compiling programs, as well as line-at-a-time command
execution. A free version of Interactive C is available for
Main informational Web site for the Handy
Board.