Maximun Cable Length for PIC to LCD

[Ioannis]

Apples it is ..

Built a 16F877A breadboard. With LCD on the above mentioned ports.
Still haven't hooked up the ribbon yet, just wanted 1 LCD at this point.
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I can't add anything more on Darrels suggestions, but have to admit that the breadboard is very tidy good looking! An art in breadboarding!

The background that seems like a pcb, what is it?

Ioannis

[Darrel Taylor]

Thanks for noticing Ioannis,

The first breadboard I ever bought came with a box of 3M pre-cut jumpers.
I just thought that's the way it's supposed to be done.

Thanks to my "Glowing Eyed Monsters",
I also learned to trim the leads off of the parts so they sit flat on the breadboard.
There's another breadboard of mine in that thread too. Same style.

I never knew how bad a breadboard could be till I ran across this ...
http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/ledtouch/
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[wildbilly]

Yeah! He is indeed very neat. I am inspired to do the same. The background looks like a chair seat. Darrel your wildbilly.hex file ran ok. I have never used MPASM. I should try and get it going.

Thank you.

[Darrel Taylor]

The background looks like a chair seat.

DING! Give that man a cigar.
I forgot to answer it. oops.

I have never used MPASM. I should try and get it going

Just go here... at the bottom of the page, install the MPLAB IDE v8.00 Full Release Zipped Installation
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/id...&part=SW007002

Are you using MicroCode Studio for the IDE?
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[mister_e]

one of the less neat prototype i've never ever saw ...
http://www.botmag.com/articles/bionic_stamp.shtml

[wildbilly]

Hi Darrel. I am using Microcode Studio.

[Darrel Taylor]

Great. That makes it easy.

After installing MPLAB ...

In MCS, go to the View | Compile and Program Options | Assembler Tab

Click the Find Manually ... button and point it to
C:\program files\microchip\mpasm suite

Then check the Use MPASM checkbox.

You should be good to go.
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[Darrel Taylor]

OOPs, one more thing to get that to compile.

In your PBP folder, open the 16F877A.INC file, and comment out the __config line with a semicolon ;

Now you should be good to go.


mister_e,

At least now I know where to go if I need some extra wire.
Sheesh.
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