Quote Originally Posted by aurbo View Post
I'm lost and bewildered on the coding part.
Hex, ASM, C, Basic, Etc.. I have no clue where to start.
The Schem is based on a 3 wire SPI setup, You can use almost any Pic that will handle this.
Would anyone have a test code sample, Using a 16F627A that will interface with the 595's and light up a single segment in order from a-g and dp of each digit and then move on to the next digit. ( I have several 16F627A's I can toast learning this code on)
I think Basic would be the easiest for me to understand. I understand what it does, why it does it, but not HOW..
Any help at this point would be greatly appreciated and possibly save my sanity. So far from just an idea to a circuit has taken just over 2 months, I'm in no rush to just make this thing and move on.. this is my learning "Pic" project.
Just for some idea on how complex a project like this can actually be:
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=6033

And I think you'd be much better off working your way up to it.
Have you made 'blinky' yet? (that's what we commonly call the PIC controlled blinking LED)

We (we being those that have been at it for awhile) have all said it before, and will probably say it again, if you don't start small and work up to whatever it is you're hoping to accomplish in the end, you'll give up and have X dollars of hardware that'll never get used again because you're sick of failing.