Hi Trent,

Far as I'm concerned this thread has been completely hijacked with 4 pages of junk carrying
a user rating of 1.8 out of 5.
Yes, this is a bad habit. All this discourages people from posting.


I don't consider the cries for help to be even the slightest bit genuine. That's the sickening part.
There were three people reporting a problem with this project and indeed there was a problem
with the schematic and we managed to find it.

Are Magu's cries for help genuine?
In my opinion yes.

Look at the picture posted by Magu:


(Click to enlarge the picture).

CPU board: (Picture)

Magu is not an expert, the decoupling capacitors were added in
a second time despite this was the second board he made.

Display board: (Picture)

The alignment of the LEDs, transistors and resistors was done with
great care. (All the components were soldered perpendicular).

What are my conclusions?

Little theoretical knowledge, but good perseverance.
The same can be said for his posts in this thread.

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I was able to help him to partially test the board he made.
I have never used PicBasic before and I have never developed anything
using PIC microcontrollers. All I know about PicBasic and PIC microcontrollers
is based on personal researches done while evaluating them.

This is why I had to suggest him to find somebody in his town
willing to help him program the chip and test the board.

Best regards,

Luciano