[Robotgroup] Low End Microcontroller Intro

[Paul Atkinson]

Thanks Gray & PY for helping to get this demo working. Also my thanks to
Doug for the RC-40 board and for bringing your micro-mouse to show us!
Certainly a cool looking piece of hardware.

Paul

On 6/15/07, Gray Mack <gray_mack at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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