Originally Posted by jerryf

yes it is SPI, Serial Peripheral Interface?
What is that? is it available on the 18F4550?
Thanks Jerry

From the first page of the 18F4550 data sheet:

Master Synchronous Serial Port (MSSP) module
supporting 3-wire SPI (all 4 modes) and I2C™
Master and Slave modes

SPI is an easy one to bit bang if you don't have it in hardware, though.

Do you have the data sheet for your PIC yet, and are you reading it? If not you should take a trip to MicroChip's website and get it, and start looking it over.

Hi

Originally Posted by BeepBop
I have been doing this kind of thing for several years now, and own quite a few of the Olimex boards, and a couple of the (albeit earlier) futurlec boards.

Thanks for that - fair comment - I was only going by the thier photos, just glad there is someone around who has good experience of them both.

From Wizzballs thread think you can see how many new starters are being lured into buying boards that are not what they think they are - although the adverts are accurate in their description - its a very understandable error.

Originally Posted by richard.c

Hi




Thanks for that - fair comment - I was only going by the thier photos, just glad there is someone around who has good experience of them both.

From Wizzballs thread think you can see how many new starters are being lured into buying boards that are not what they think they are - although the adverts are accurate in their description - its a very understandable error.

Well to be completely fair to futurlec, I should try out one of their new boards before I comment on it, but....

These days, though, I have more faith in my firmware, so building the hardware, then debugging it is not so bad. When I first started, I wanted at least one of the two to be 'known good.'