[Robotgroup] Low End Microcontroller Intro

[Gray Mack]

I am pleased to announce that with the help of Paul
and PY we successfully completed all of the 7 intro
steps to PIC MPLAB usage, PIC flashing, breadboarding,
and Eagle cad circuit creation. 
If anyone missed it, maybe we can do it again when we
have a projector so more people can see what we are
doing as a presentation rather than a SIG huddled
around a small laptop screen. Still I think some of us
learned some new stuff.

I also want to graciously thank Doug for his donation
of bare RC-40 boards to folks who are interested. I am
not sure who all got one but hopefully we can get a
few projects going out of these.
-Gray

--- 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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