[Robotgroup] Low End Microcontroller Intro

[Paul Atkinson]

Gray,

I'll plan on bringing the Win-laptop with MPLAB and the ICD2.

Paul

On 6/13/07, Gray Mack <gray_mack at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Low End Microcontroller Intro
> Special Interest Group this Thursday night @ show & tell!
>
> I plan do to demonstrate as much as possible the following steps:
> Hello world (blinky led) project
> 1 Using a PIC16F683 8 pin micro, build a circuit on a breadboard
>   with an LED and support components.
> 2 Design the circuit in Eagle cad and create a board template
>   which if printed could be used to build the same circuit on an
>   etched PCB. I think I can get Eagle to run on Linux laptop
> 3 If someone brings a laptop with MPLAB then demonstrate
>   using it to produce the blinky software application
> 4 Compile a PIC assembly program that I found and ported to
>   the '683 chip but havent yet tested.
> 5 Step through it in the simulator to see if it is working
> 6 If someone brings a PIC programmer like ICD2 (I wont get
>   mine until next week) then figure out how to use it,
>   connect the programmer to the windows machine and the chip and
>   flash the application to the PIC
> 7 Power up the breadboard and see if the LED blinks
>
>
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