converting programs~

[sanguine]

attached along with this msg is a PIC16F877A program.
It is bio-related program for a hospital.
Brief description
Patient in hospital may suffer from slp walking disorder.
So this program is for an alarm to be raised when the pressure in the shoe increases(when the patient walks, in other words, there is pressure sensor at the shoe sole.)

Can anyone help convert it for use in PIC 18F4520/18F4420?

[skimask]

attached along with this msg is a PIC16F877A program.
It is bio-related program for a hospital.
Brief description
Patient in hospital may suffer from slp walking disorder.
So this program is for an alarm to be raised when the pressure in the shoe increases(when the patient walks, in other words, there is pressure sensor at the shoe sole.)
Can anyone help convert it for use in PIC 18F4520/18F4420?

I'm sure a lot of people could help with that. The program looks very simple.
Questions is...can you answer any of the questions in the other thread about the '442?
AND, how willing are you to try and learn to do the programming yourself vs. somebody else completely rewriting the code for you.

[Melanie]

This assumes that the patient is going to put on shoes or slippers before they sleep-walk. They don't... they go wandering in bare feet...

The best method is for the patient to wear a wrist ID (of the kind they already fit in hospitals) with a proximity alarm tag (similar to the sort they have in stores to prevent you from stealing merchandise). The alarm is sounded as soon as they go through the main door out of their room or hospital ward. This also allows for the patient to get up normally and go to the bathroom without sounding an alarm (nobody sleepwalking as yet has flushed themselves down a toilet!).

[sanguine]

yes ill reply to that previous thread.
And true, of course i'm very fine with learning it all over, converting myself~
but the thing is if i were to convert myself, i at least will need to know what the program is about. You see, we are given this program coded in PIC 16 and all i need to do is to copy paste into the MPLAB, load into the ICD and thn get it running. But since we need to convert the codes due to the availability of PIC 18, i'll need at least someone to help me get started.
I'm not writing a program myself in this case, i'm given a program written by someone else and i really just need someone to tell me what the various codes mean and then try to make appropriate amendments.
not really looking for people to spoon feed me~

[skimask]

not really looking for people to spoon feed me~

Quite frankly, that's exactly what it looks like...
What were you planning on doing this in? assembly? PBP? C?

[sanguine]

ah well...my bad..=X
It's done in MPLAB IDE

[T.Jackson]

This assumes that the patient is going to put on shoes or slippers before they sleep-walk. They don't... they go wandering in bare feet...

The best method is for the patient to wear a wrist ID (of the kind they already fit in hospitals) with a proximity alarm tag (similar to the sort they have in stores to prevent you from stealing merchandise). The alarm is sounded as soon as they go through the main door out of their room or hospital ward. This also allows for the patient to get up normally and go to the bathroom without sounding an alarm (nobody sleepwalking as yet has flushed themselves down a toilet!).

Too true. An RFID wrist tag is common place in many nursing homes and hospitals to aid with wandering residents, sadly some with Alzheimer's. In my last job I was employed as a field / bench technician to install and service a wireless nurse call system operating on 27 and 304MHz. Top system. I worked with RFID-based wrist tags, door alarms, pressure sensors, displays, repeaters, dialers. Depressing job.

[sanguine]

I know that...but the O/P doesn't want to be spoon fed, so I figured he/she might be able to find that tidbit in the datasheets.

yea...i DUN want to be spoon fed but that much of information i manage to think of myself. By the way, I'm learning to use a pic16F877 now since my lecturer got me one. Learning the MPLAB IDE ver 7.50.
AND SKIMASK.. im a 18 yr girl who is an extreme noob in programming.
I'm only taught for 1-3 month for my MCT module?
I dun think i can be as pro as you are...if not i would'nt have asked for help here! if that is spoon feeding to you then be it. I'm very fine with it.

[skimask]

yea...i DUN want to be spoon fed but that much of information i manage to think of myself. By the way, I'm learning to use a pic16F877 now since my lecturer got me one.

Which is a fair distance from a PIC18F442/452...

Learning the MPLAB IDE ver 7.50.

Also outdated, latest version is 7.61 (maybe 7.62 by now)

im a 18 yr girl

Don't matter...

who is an extreme noob in programming.

Then pick up an 'extreme noob' type project and work your way up.

I dun think i can be as pro as you are...

Time will tell now won't it...

if not i would'nt have asked for help here! if that is spoon feeding to you then be it. I'm very fine with it.

Good, because I haven't seen anything that you have written yet...just copies of stuff you want converted.
Show us something that YOU have written, and when it doesn't work, ask the question Why...