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EasyPIC-6 Development Board by MikroElectronica - Take"2"
cidrontmg:
Hi craynerd and kwackers, you´ve convinced me. I just ordered an EasyPic6, and some other boards from Mikroelektronika. And downloaded 109 Mb of files from their site... And ordered one 4x4 keyboard. I´m also building the rotary table controller, and having a hard time trying to convince Farnell that I really would like to have their 4x4 kbd... I got most of the other components from Germany and Poland, just missing the 4x4 keypad. I´m building the rotab controller into a Hammond/Eddystone cast ali box, big enough to also house a sizable PSU. And it´s a natural heat sink.
I don´t know if I can use the Mikroelektronika keypad for it, electrically yes, but it doesn´t seem very bombproof mechanically. One possibility would be to decimate a pocket calculator and use that...
I´ll take some pictures when I have a bit more to show.
Somehow funny that the EasyPic6 is made in Belgrade, Serbia, then it goes to the U.S.A., and then is sold to Portugal... And it would be more expensive if bought straight from Serbia! International trade and globalization work in mysterious ways. :loco:
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j45on:
cidrontmg
The key pad I got from farnell is made by apem if that helps
http://www.apemswitches.be/1-26725-Portugal.php
I also ordered an easypic 6 as well :ddb:
raynerd:
Please post your reviews! I`m quite excited now there are more of us that have one ... I`m still very much learning so it`ll be good to discuss issues with others!
Are you both going down the route of Mikro C for the programming?
I made a few good projects to get me going - a set of traffic lights (totally pointless!), I made a ball and cup game with an LCD display, a binary clock and my favourate one, which I actually built on an outside circuit was a little electronic dice. OK, all pointless really but they got me going with getting to grips with C and getting the skills to make my x-axis controller. I`m sure you`ll be better than me from the start but I had zero experience with any form of programming.
j45on:
Mikro C but the free version.
I can't justify £130 for software yet in case I can't figure it out.
cidrontmg:
Hi j45son, craynerd,
the Apem link helped, sort of. While I was trying to find a local vendor, I stumbled on a shop in Oporto that had 4x4 pads, not by Apem though, but cheap enough to check what they´re like. Hope to get a package this week.
I´m not much of a C programmer. Basic and Pascal are far more familiar to me. I´ve also done quite a bit of x86 asm programming, but I´m afraid it´s not much help. The instruction set of these CPU´s is totally different. I´ll see first what I can do with the free Basic and Pascal versions, the 2k limit seems rather low. The max. program size for 18F452 seems to be 32k. But in x86 assembler at least, you can do an awful lot in a 2k program. And maybe I´m still able to learn Microchip asm...
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