EasyHID and USB for Newbies??

[Squibcakes]

Hi Rob,

Yep, I'm still waiting for (as you say) someone to spell it out. Hahaha.

I'm a bit hesitent to buy one of these chips until I have all the facts and a pretty good 'How to' Guide.

Thanks for your comments
J

[mister_e]

Since cash is involve and you don't want to loose any of these green crispy money bill, GOOD NEWS (not really a news but) YOU Don't need to buy them... Microchip offer Free demo... see their website and open an account. Free of charge, freee shipping and blah blah... yeah of course there's some limitation in the quantity but... it's still free.

I'm a bit hesitent to buy one of these chips until I have all the facts and a pretty good 'How to' Guide.

It will never hurt to try
They will never bite you
The worst case, you'll learn something new OR, also possible, waste your time.

[Demon]

Hi J,

Yup, as Steve said, MicroChips offer free samples. I've already ordered many chips from them that way; no hassle, no questions, fast shipping (from Malaysia I believe, took 3 days). I recommend the 18F4550, it looks a lot like the 16F877, but has more bells and whistles.

As soon as I figure this out, I'll report back here with my findings like I did for the graphic LCD. So far I haven't been able to find all the pieces to the puzzle. It's not a matter of them being spread out over several threads or sites, I have no problem with searching. There's 'some' information that people are just not posting. I suspect it's the PC side that is incomplete in the examples I've seen so far.

All I need is a working example of sending a keystroke, I can take it from there. But by the way things appear, I'll probably have to dish out $600 for that specialized software that is supposed to spit it all out; PIC and PC code. I just don't have that kind of money lying around...

http://www.tracesystemsinc.com/usb_tools.ivnu

Robert

[Demon]

The software is ordered here:
http://cippsites.com/Merchant4/merch...re_Code=melabs

Robert

[lester]

EasyHID Wizard is completely free. It is not time limited in any way and it does not have any nag screens!

http://www.mecanique.co.uk/products/usb/easyhid.html

[Demon]

Been there done that, still can't get it to work. It's like some stuff is still missing. I tried making a simple keyboard using the examples that are floating about in here and several other sites, couldn't get it happening after a lot of hours.

So I gave up until I'll have enough money for the software, which ain't tomorrow...

Robert

[Squibcakes]

Hi Rob,

That HIDMaker FS Software looks really good... but I would have to sell the House Cat in order to afford it!

What we really want is a step by step guide how to write USB code in Picbasic Pro.

Easy HID is a good start but as you say, there are too many blanks.

I ordered my free chips from Micro chip... thanks for the Tip.

Cheers
Jared