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From: Marc Nicholas <marc@rednet.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: problems with miniboard
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In article <2fvtgm$98e@handler.Eng.Sun.COM> Chuck McManis,
cmcmanis@pepper.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>>        will this board run with only one motor driver chip?  This
would 
>>allow me to get started and I only need two motors for my first 
>>experiment anyways.  I can put in the other later.

(Anyone is welcome to flame me if I'm wrong here...)

Any unused pins on a chip like the HC11 should be connected to
*something*....i.e. ground or logic 1....

Why? Well, it's standard CMOS practice and I presume it's relavent
here...but I'm no electronics engineer....


Marc.

(I'm just about to start building a miniboard without any motor drivers,
no SPI jacks, and no LEDs so I'd welcome any feedback!)
