PBP projects for R/C models

[mackrackit]

Are you saying the breadboard you have is not 0.1 centers?
Up in post 311 I gave a link to a place with headers with 0.1 centers.

[Kenjones1935]

The 90 degree headers do not have long enough stems. They do not reach to the springs in the proto board holes. I solved this by bending them straight, but I would rather have the connectors coming in horizontal.

BIG REAL PROBLEM!! My PBP 2.6 version DEFINE pulsin_max
command does nothing. I can see this from the speed at which the sonar LED's blink. I am using a PULSIN command to detect whether the radio transmitter is powered on. If no PWM signal comes in, the power is off and the PIC is on its own to guide the car. This is my new TOGGLE system, but it does not work. When power is off the LED's flash about once per second no matter what I set pulsin_max to be. When power is on they flash many times per second.

Any rumors around campus to which I am not privy?

Ken

[Kenjones1935]

pulsin_max does not cut short the time used by PULSIN? It makes PULSIN ignore everything that happens after pulsin_max duration but the next command in line is not implemented until PULSIN has gone through all its 65,535 ticks.

If this is the case, what can I do to detect within, say, 25 millisec something that happens every 20 millisec or not at all?

Ken

[mackrackit]

I think COUNT might work better in this case...

Those 90 degree headers should be long enough when the plastic that holds them together is slide close to the bend. Works for me that way.

[Kenjones1935]

COUNT is the solution. This is BIG. My target RC car is the HPI Sprint. In comes in a Ready To Run package for around $200 including a two channel radio system. I have been using channel three to make the TOGGLE between R/C and PIC control. This is an expensive variation. Now a plain vanilla RTR Sprint should do the job! THANK YOU.

Ken

[mackrackit]

COOOOOL!!!!!

I can not wait to see new videos.

[Kenjones1935]

I have "16 BIT LANGUAGE TOOLS GETTING STARTED" DS70094E. My 16F887 is an 8 bit machine. What is the best way for me to learn ASM for my PIC? I have not been able to get MPLAB IDE v8.33 to work. Is that because I am dealing with an 8 bit PIC?

Ken