

it looks harder but you will have a better understanding of how the PIC works.įirst things first. This is an ASSEMBLY based coding program. This thing will make your life 100x easier! alot cheaper and a better way to understand how the PIC 'talks' to the computer.Ĥ) For the PIC16F84 (I also am using this) (I can't help you w/ the other chip) Go to to the Microchip website and download the MPLAB IDE (Integrated Development Environment). if you are detemined to learn!ģ) I bought my programmer for $10. DONT GET MAD! GET BETTER INFORMED! You will laugh at how simple most of your problems really are!Ģ)For me. I would do this:ġ) Stop getting fustrated with your PIC. If I could start all over again with the knowledge I have now. I was exactly in your shoes 4 weeks ago!!

And now.i'm interested againnn.and hope i won't have to wait anotherr few yrs.THANKS! Thanks for the help! OH.and also if you're wondering why i got these microcontrollers even though now they have better counterparts for probably the same or better s because I bought it a while back, tried it, got extremely frustrated when trying to get it to work for a long time, and pretty much stopped.

So, any help would be great and it can be on either of the microcontrollers i bought.

Um.at this point the happiest thing in the world for me (ok not the happiest, buttt yeahh) would just be able to see like "Helloworld" output coming back from the microcontroller on the computer. I have tried making some programmers but have failed because i had no idea how to use IC-prog (err one of those programs err i found online). Also, i was wondering how to know if the microcontroller is actually talking to the computer or not.like how do i verify if it is working correctly? Also, i do not know assembly and well i've learned a little C++, but I don't know how far off that is from the C you have to use to program these microcontrollers. Okay and the other thing is.once i have made the programmer, I was wondering what software i should use to program the microcontroller. However, this computer only has a parallel port so hopefully the programmer can stick to using that. Oh and well.i guess some diodes, resistors, transistors, etc. I have a couple parallel port um adapters? i guess you could call it that as well as a db9 adapter to connect to the computer. Okay, so right now i have a PIC16f84 and a couple atmel at90s2313 microcontrollers and was wondering if you guys knew any easy, cheap programmers that i could make given a schematic. Hello, I'm new to microcontrollers, but am very interested in using them to do many different tasks.
