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    Yeah, and then you get the INS chasing them...

    Yeah, and then you get the INS chasing them through your yard and putting huge footprints in your garden. Currently it's a $10,000 fine in the US for knowingly hiring an illegal alien. Factoring...
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    How about X10?

    There's floodlights available at http://www.smarthome.com/4080xt.html which will send an alarm when they activate using your power lines. They also sell a X10 motion detector without the lights for...
  3. Maybe too comprehensive?

    pex, Microchip data sheets are in a special language called technologeze, a tongue that bears some passing resemblance to English. They're over 300 pages so the problem is not that the data isn't...
  4. Thread: Clearing LCD

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    It's really simple...

    To put four blank spaces at the beginning of the 1st line:

    LCDOUT $FE, $80, " "

    It's a simple as that. And nothing else currently displayed on the LCD will be changed. Controlling LCD's...
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    Shouldn't be a problem...

    Michael, I've had no problems overwriting data displayed on an LCD. It's not necessary to clear everything. And as for clearing an entire line, would it work for you to send a line of ASCII space...
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    Wha...?

    I think that every question deserves an answer but I cannot for the life of me figure out what this guy is talking about.
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    It's hard to say...

    I'm a relative newcomer myself, and in my experience, you should start small and work up from there. It doesn't look like any of the bundles are set up especially for servo motor control. I'd start...
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    What a load of crap....

    fanie doesn't list a location but I'm betting he's somewhere in the US because of his typical American attitude. I re-checked Darrel's original post and nowhere does he say or even imply that the...
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    ZYou must have a lot of time on your hands...

    That computer that you're spending many hours trying to figure out also has a memory. As was just said, a dealer would take about 5 minutes to plug in and tell you what's going on in your engine. ...
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    I wouldn't be too sure....

    I've even plugged a couple of them backwards. It seems to take a whole lot to fry one. The only way I can think of to really test your chip would be to put the identical program in an identical...
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    Backup supply?

    It seems like all you would need would be a battery of some sort going to your PIC through a diode. As long as you have a large enough capacitor on the power pins of your PIC, this would keep your...
  12. You have to start somewhere...

    Well, Robert, you've found your way to a board for people who use MELabs PicBasic. Obviously, there's a number of ways you can program your PIC so the first decision you have to make is what system...
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    We've all done things like that...

    My favorite was accidentally reversing the power leads on the pc board for a new project. I (and a whole room full of people) hit the floor thinking it was gunshots when the electrolytic capacitors...
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    If it was me, I'd establish one single point as...

    If it was me, I'd establish one single point as ground, probably the center pin of the LM7805. Then I'd check all the possible points on both boards with a multimeter to see if there's any DC bias. ...
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    Emulator?

    If you're using XP, all you would need would be a $25 USB card adapter. The cards show up as additional drives on your PC. Just drag the data over from the floppy and throw your A Drive out the...
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    Keep on plugging...

    I think your problem has to be some sort of config issue, Andy. I just spent a whole lot of time scratching my head because a 16F877 will accept an 8 Mhz Xtal as "XT", but a 16F877A will only accept...
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    OK, a preference...

    I've used the Easy Microcontrol'n book. It's well written but doesn't go very far. You should plan on having to buy most of the Square 1 books to get to the same level as Chuck Hellebuyck's...
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    May be required?

    In my experience, the combination of 4 Mhz and 9600 baud has never worked. It might have worked for other people. Since xtals are something like $.30 from Jameco, why take the chance?
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    Another idea...

    You might want to go to http://www.hidcorp.com/products/readers.php and see if you can match your reader up with on of their models.
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    A couple of ideas...

    Sphere, Is your card reader communicating in RS232 or Wiegand? HID readers come in both flavors and some will do both. The other thing that stood out in your post was that you're running your PIC...
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    More...

    Ioannis, I'm not sure why most manufacturers picked RS422 over RS485 since they both can go a long distance but it seems to be standard for the major manufacturers. Originally, they all tried to use...
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    More information...

    Ioannis, I'n not aware of an industry-wide standard but different brands of cameras can generally be adapted to work on each others system. The first question would have to be--what brand of camera...
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    Maybe I can help...

    Rob, I do a lot of CCTV for my job. What exactly are you trying to control? Generally, the iris is controlled by the camera itself. For the older-type camera, that have a zoom lens connected to...
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    An update...

    It appears that this board was supposed to have a proper schematic in the box but mine did not. The folks at MikroElectronica sent me the appropriate .pdf's and now I be rockin'.
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    Schematic for PICPLC16?

    Hello, I've been lurking here for a while while I've been learned PBP and Pic's in general. I think I've learned a lot more from reading the posts than from both tbhe manual and data sheet combined....
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