Interfacing with a HCTL-1100

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Hello All!
I am working on a Senior Thesis project. We are tackling a SLAM
problem, and currently I am trying to use a Basic Stamp 2 to
interface to two HCTL-1100 precision motion controllers. I was
curious if anyone had ever attempted this type of project before. A
quick web search did not produce anything of substance. Would be
interested if anyone has any helpful suggestions.

-Jim

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At the risk of asking the obvious ... do you have the specs on the motor
controller? If not, start there. The BS2 can use synchronous and
asynchronous serial, as well as I2C (with code) -- chances are you can
control it with the BASIC Stamp if it uses a standardized interface.

I'll bet that a quick web search (I like Google, but there are other good
search engines) will net a lot of useful information.

-- Jon Williams
-- Applications Engineer, Parallax


In a message dated 2/12/2003 10:59:43 AM Central Standard Time,
lelechuck@e... writes:

> Hello All!
> I am working on a Senior Thesis project. We are tackling a SLAM
> problem, and currently I am trying to use a Basic Stamp 2 to
> interface to two HCTL-1100 precision motion controllers. I was
> curious if anyone had ever attempted this type of project before. A
> quick web search did not produce anything of substance. Would be
> interested if anyone has any helpful suggestions.
>
> -Jim



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It's ok... I did, and the HCTL-1100 uses an An 8-bit bi-directional
multiplexed address/data bus. The data sheet has plenty on
information on addressing. I was hoping someone out there might have
already done some development for a similar system.

-Jim


--- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, jonwms@a... wrote:
> At the risk of asking the obvious ... do you have the specs on the
motor
> controller? If not, start there. The BS2 can use synchronous and
> asynchronous serial, as well as I2C (with code) -- chances are you
can
> control it with the BASIC Stamp if it uses a standardized interface.
>
> I'll bet that a quick web search (I like Google, but there are
other good
> search engines) will net a lot of useful information.
>
> -- Jon Williams
> -- Applications Engineer, Parallax
>
>
> In a message dated 2/12/2003 10:59:43 AM Central Standard Time,
> lelechuck@e... writes:
>
> > Hello All!
> > I am working on a Senior Thesis project. We are tackling a SLAM
> > problem, and currently I am trying to use a Basic Stamp 2 to
> > interface to two HCTL-1100 precision motion controllers. I was
> > curious if anyone had ever attempted this type of project
before. A
> > quick web search did not produce anything of substance. Would be
> > interested if anyone has any helpful suggestions.
> >
> > -Jim
>
>
>
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