Hi If you are putting money into a Microchip programmer, I'd probably head over to the PIC Kit 3 rather than the 2. It will do debug as well as programming on the range of parts. Having breakpoints and debug is a *good* thing.
Bob On May 25, 2013, at 9:44 PM, Herbert Poetzl <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 08:46:03AM -0500, Jason Rabel wrote: >> I've decided I finally want to tackle learning how to use a PIC >> chip for some smaller projects. Can someone recommend me a good >> (and cheap) PIC, and possible some literature (be it a book or >> website)? I have a fairly recent willem eprom programmer that >> I'm hoping I can use. > > Microchip has good product selection tools like this one: > http://www.microchip.com/maps/microcontroller.aspx > (note the plus signs on the right side of each section) > >> I don't know what all the features PICs have, but for my first >> project I would like to have it connected to a serial port on >> one of my Soekris' where it can grab info (i.e. the current >> time, or NTP/GPS info) and output that on a little LED display. > > Depending on the type of LED display you have in mind, you > want to have PWM capabilities (multiplexing) and high > current source/sink, as well as an (E)U(S)ART for the serial > communication. > > A four digit LED display can be easily controlled by a > PIC16F1503 (price about 0.8 USD, 14 pins) and the required > documents are available on the Microchip site: > http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en553475 > > You can do the UART part in software for low data rates > or simply take the PIC16F1508/9 which already includes > an EUSART (price about 1.3 USD, 20 pins) > > One programmer for many PIC chips (8 bit to 32 bit) is > the PICkit2 which can be bought for less than 30 USD > (via usb, works fine on Linux and MacOS as well) > > HTH, > Herbert > >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
