Thursday, June 3, 2010

Project E - P1

This is a personal project that I am doing during my free time. There was slow progress due to some work commitments lately and I also stumbled onto a problem. So more work to go until I get it working. The first few steps were not easy but certainly satisfying.


1. Initial testing of PIC. Still unfamiliar with the programming language, however I believe if I continue with more effort it should not be a problem. I removed the switch later, made it badly. You can see the 4MHz crystal on the top right corner. I thought it was not working, later found out that I did not set the configuration bits in MPLAB to XT. Took me quite awhile to realize this mistake.


2. I found another 4MHz crystal to try. This was before finding out my mistake.


3. Manage to get the frequency and signal that I want. Still early stages with my programming and hardware design. The 2 digit LED on the left is just there for show. Not integrated yet.


4. Finally got to organize my components. Collection since university days.


5. Another box after getting organized. Now able to find what I need quickly.

2 comments:

  1. hopefully i can put more effort into it to get it going :) thanks

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