AMICUS 18 Section

[lester]

Answers to your questions

1) lets see if there is some interest from PBP users before we rush into making sections or links

2) Crownhill or Farnell or make your own its an open design and all data is available. There are already MANY clones available.

3) the Free Proton compiler is only 1 option, the hardware is OPEN and is valid for use with PBP, so why not use PBP???? The bootloader is agnostic, so you can use the bootloader to load your PBP compiled code

The object of the excersice is to take advanatge of the multitude of Arduino Shields that are available at VERY low cost. AMICUS 18 is simply a hardwrae platform that would enable PBP users to easily take advantage of ther massive amount of shields available.

4) at least look that the documentation and the schematics, the answer is YES, but for ease of use the Bootloader is FREE and open and works well with PBP

5) NO, go and buy ARDUINO SHIELDS, the point is that Arduino sheilds are CHEAP and readily available....Before Amicus18 there was no way for a PBP user to take advantage of the massive number of low cost sheilds that were designed for the Arduino. Now a PBP user can use those low cost easily available sheilds in the PIC environment.

Arduino is probably the MOST POPULAR develkpment platform in the world at present and has been for some time. NO PIC development platform has ever been as popular as the Arduino. Arduino is Atmel based and PBP users cannot take advantage of this popular platform unless they move to Atmel...which they don't want to do. So enter Amicus18.....

[Archangel]

5) NO, go and buy ARDUINO SHIELDS, the point is that Arduino sheilds are CHEAP and readily available....Before Amicus18 there was no way for a PBP user to take advantage of the massive number of low cost sheilds that were designed for the Arduino. Now a PBP user can use those low cost easily available sheilds in the PIC environment.

OK I think I will order one of these boards, good to know it is compatible with arduino shields. I thought maybe the "shields" prices listed were just some numbers thrown into the web page during construction which would stand out during editing so they could be changed to the "real price" and got missed, My Bad, your shields are Professional, not hobbyist tools.

[lester]

It would be great if a PBP user were to produce some code examples in PBP to replace the examples in the Amicus18 Companion Shield Manual . I think I could persuade tghe author to release the original document so that it could be modified to support PBP code examples.

Any offers???

[mackrackit]

Any offers???

I am working on a small article, should have it up tonight.

[lester]

Hey that would be great, the code examples in the Companion Shield manaul are simple enough, but still PBP users will ahve an easier time if they were to be replaced by PBP examples.

It would be really good to ahve a PBP Companion shield manaul.....I'm sure we could do that if a few PBP users were to produce equivalent code examples and re write a little of the text in the manaual to reflect useing Amicus18 with PBP instead of Proton

[mackrackit]

It was a tough decision... sleep or work on this.. I slept, so it is late....

I figured starting with MCS and the boot loader would be a good place to begin.
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/cont...ro-Code-Studio

I will do some code later.