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[Archangel]

I will give that a try, <h3>yesiree, I sure will,YEP, I believe you are talkin' a couple of light years ahead of my experience level,</h3> what I think you are saying is send a string $FF, $10, $E0, $FF and receive it, then subtract $FF from it repeatedly to extract data which does not equal 0 after the subtraction process. I'm sure I can do this . . . a year from now Nevertheless . . the hardest part is figuring out what to do, then you can work out how!
JS

[skimask]

I will give that a try
JS

Well, that was just an example, limited info on what you really got going and a zillion different ways a guy could go about it all.
Let me know what you come up with. It's always interesting to see different methods of doing the same thing...
JDG

[mister_e]

Good ol' VB is still really easy to work with. Bruce have a short tutorial on that.
http://rentron.com/VisualBasic.htm

a piece of something to play around... posted here awhile back... when i had a good day
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/atta...3&d=1117969258

[skimask]

I will give that a try, <h3>yesiree, I sure will,YEP, I believe you are talkin' a couple of light years ahead of my experience level,</h3> what I think you are saying is send a string $FF, $10, $E0, $FF and receive it, then subtract $FF from it repeatedly to extract data which does not equal 0 after the subtraction process. I'm sure I can do this . . . a year from now Nevertheless . . the hardest part is figuring out what to do, then you can work out how!
JS

Ya know, I think I got this posted confused with another that was talking about using RF modules.
If you're hardwired, then, heck, I wouldn't worry about all that packet stuff.

And from the sounds of it, it sounds like you've got a good handle on what to do and when to do it.
What are you trying to do anyways? What's the end result going to be?
JDG

[Archangel]

Hi Skimask,
I have no particular project at hand, I am trying to learn how to control a PIC via a serial connection, you know turn on some LEDs . . .
JS

[skimask]

Hi Skimask,
I have no particular project at hand, I am trying to learn how to control a PIC via a serial connection, you know turn on some LEDs . . .
JS

Well, heck, that should be simple enough for ya.
Set up the receiver PIC to read the serial port.
Receive an 'a', Portb.0 goes high, led goes on, echo back 'PB0=1' if you want,
receive a 'b', Portb.0 goes low, led goes off, echo back 'PB0=0',
get a 'c', portb.1 goes high, led goes on,
get a 'd', portb.1 goes low, led goes off....

And so on and so on.
It all goes back to JCP (remember Joe's Communications Protocol?). It's all about what you want to do. In the end, it doesn't matter what I or anybody else thinks....it's all about what you want.

So design the thing, write the firmware, and make it work!!!
The problem is, once you get that working, ideas start flooding forth, and then you start spending big money on pieces/parts...

JDG