Well on my way to PIC programmer

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- 22nd March 2010, 05:58
PickyBiker

Well on my way to PIC programmer

With lots of help from this forum, I have accomplished the following in a single week:

Found out about PICs
Acquired PBP, a few PICs, and a Programmer
Wrote (or copied) the Blink program
Compiled it
burned it to a pic
put the PIC on a breadboard with a resonator (20Mhz)
Got the LED to FLASH!!!!
Modified the prog to add DEFINE OSC 20
Configured the fuses in the source
Recompiled the thing
Everything works!

To you experienced guys, thiis may not seem like much, but to a raw beginner, I feel great to have come full circle in the process.

Now on to my real goal which is an RC flight controller.

Thanks for making this a lot easier than it would have been without your help.

Mike
- 22nd March 2010, 06:34
mackrackit

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To you experienced guys, thiis may not seem like much, but to a raw beginner, I feel great to have come full circle in the process.

Great job!!! You have done a lot!
Glad to have helped. :)
- 22nd March 2010, 07:20
malc-c

Well done... before you take that big step and try building your rc controller, how about expanding your blinky program to flash 8 LEDs in patterns, such as a chase pattern with each LED turning on in turn... and then add a 10k pot to control the speed.

I'm still very much a beginner in programming, but have managed to build several interesting projects with the help of these guys here. What tends to get positive responses are where you have tried to write your code and need help de-bugging it.

You'll also find coding is quite addictive... and you are often thinking how a PIC would be the ideal solution to various projects :)