Beginner Guides

The learning curve for micro controllers is steep and can be quite difficult depending on your background.

The guides below are vary from an introduction all the way through to your first project. Read through some guides and feel free to contribute your own articles.

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#	Article Title	Date	Author	Hits
1	A Look at Dev Board Philosophy	Wednesday, 30 June 2010	Jon Chandler	1177
2	Using Example and Tutorial Code	Wednesday, 02 June 2010	Jon Chandler	787
3	Commandments for Using PICs	Tuesday, 01 June 2010	Jon Chandler	8026
4	The PICKit 2 Logic Tool	Friday, 15 January 2010	Jon Chandler	1614
5	Programming a New Development Board	Thursday, 12 November 2009	Jon Chandler	3804
6	Download PIC Compilers	Sunday, 15 March 2009	Graham	2510
7	Whats a "Compiler"?	Sunday, 15 March 2009	Graham	1178
8	PIC Micro's For Beginners	Monday, 09 March 2009	Graham	8977

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Persistence of vision light show - be80be Wednesday, 08 September 2010 22:52 - [7 replies]
AND-ing two bytes - graham Wednesday, 08 September 2010 04:52 - [16 replies]
Big GPS Clock - graham Wednesday, 08 September 2010 04:29 - [25 replies]
Don't have a max232 and need one look here - be80be Tuesday, 07 September 2010 23:06 - [3 replies]
ADC Hysteresis? - mmclaren Tuesday, 07 September 2010 16:15 - [5 replies]
spedoometer with 3310 lcd - tahirmaqsood Tuesday, 07 September 2010 01:13 - [0 replies]

New Articles

Not Quite Trivial - A Tip for using the Software UART with the PICKit 2 +

This tip is almost trivial, but it's a D'uh moment too. Just in case anyone else has missed the obvious. here's a quick tip. I usually use Swordfish's hardware UART routines and I don't recommend Swordfish's software UART for input, where there...

Author: Jon Chandler

Simulating Analog Sensor Inputs +

When developing an embedded application using analog sensor inputs, testing at specific sensor levels can be difficult. For example, in my icemaker controller project, actions need to occur at certain water levels. Using the actual sensor...

Author: Jon Chandler

Simple Signal Generator - Revised +

I recently had use for the simple signal generatorI described before for testing out some piezo buzzers I got for next to nothing. I reloaded the code onto a TAP-28 board...

Author: Jon Chandler

Reliable Header Connectors +

Header pins are ubiquitous on dev boards. Jumpers can be used to make connections during tests and code development but real-world applications need reliable connections. Connectors for single row headers have always been a problem for me,...

Author: Jon Chandler

Swordfish Module - NMEA2 +

I had a couple of issues when using David Barkers module NMEA.bas on my Big GPS Clock project. In particular, variables were being corrupted making the program very unstable. I'm not familiar...

Author: Graham

10 Keys on One Port Pin? +

I'm working on a control system that will have several relays, a bunch of LEDs and a number of switches. I was rapidly running out of port pins on a TAP-28 board to handle all the desired I/O. Possible solutions included adding an I2C port...

Author: Jon Chandler