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From: altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu (Karl Altenburg)
Subject: Re: What's a miniboard ?
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Juergen Van Gorp (jvgorp@vnet3.vub.ac.be) wrote:

: Reading this news-group, I've noticed that quite some people are talking
: about the miniboard.

: What is this "miniboard" ? I suppose that it is a stand-alone

From the FAQ:

+++What is the miniboard?

The Mini Board is an outgrowth of the MIT 6.270 robot course and design
project. It is a small and inexpensive design for a controller board
based on the ubiquitous (yet hard to find) 68HC11 micro-controller.

A fifty-page manual describing how to build and operate the Mini Board
is on-line on the FTP server cherupakha.media.mit.edu in directory
pub/miniboard/docs.  Also on-line is software for programming the Mini
Board from MS-DOS, Macintosh, and Unix machines.

Hard copies of the Mini Board manual may be ordered by sending a check
payable for U.S. $5 to "MIT Epistemology and Learning" at Epistemology
and Learning Publications, MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street
E15-301, Cambridge MA 02139.

There is now a mailing list for discussing the board.  The purpose of
the mailing list is to discuss robot controller boards, and robot
control in general.  In particular, the list will be used to support
the Mini Board 2.0 and 6.270 board design by Fred Martin and Randy
Sargent of MIT.  However, any and all traffic related to robot
controllers is welcome.

Administrative address: listserv@oberon.com
	(send a message containing the word "help" for directions)
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	Please DO NOT send administrative things to the main mailing list
	address, as then everyone will get annoyed.

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Karl R Altenburg				altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND  58105

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.  SIR THOMAS BROWNE
