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Hmmm, well none of them are on that site to start with, and anything past the standard has a minimum order of 100 or more (which I'm not about to do as you can guess).
You can use any protocol to transmit over IR because you are building both the transmitting and receiving device. Nigels website shows the format for IR remote controls for common TVs and things like that.
It would be easier to just use com port signals over the line. Since the PIC has hardware for doing that.
As I always say at this point, that's not a good choice, as the pulsewidths that come out of the IR receiver (or radio module) aren't the same as you initially supplied to the transmitter. This is why coding schemes (such as Manchester or SIRC's) are used for remote controls.
For me the shipping has been much faster than their estimates. For the hobbyist - if they so wish - this service could equate to a lifetime supply of free PICs. Also, if you do buy stuff from Microchip and are affiliated with a University, then specify that in your account info. I did this and was automatically given a huge discount (the items can still be sent to your home address).
I thought this instructable was clear. Since you have the 28pin starter board, I imagine you can just put jumper wires from the black female socket to your breadboard. I haven't done ICSP, but I suppose it has its obvious appeal for debugging.
Edit: I was respondng to posts made two pages ago. Sorry.
As I always say at this point, that's not a good choice, as the pulsewidths that come out of the IR receiver (or radio module) aren't the same as you initially supplied to the transmitter. This is why coding schemes (such as Manchester or SIRC's) are used for remote controls.
Simply that an IR or radio link isn't a piece of wire, you don't get out exactly what you put in - in particular the pulse widths vary, and RS232 is based on accurate pulse width and timing.
Hmmm, still not sure what that means exactly or what it effect it has on this project....:S
Someone Electro, is that MSN offer still available? In the morning I'm going to post a list of things (chips, LED's, etc) I'm going to order on Monday. I would very much like to get moving forward with this stuff.
I'm having a bit of trouble finding some of the books recommended to me in this thread, so I'm going to look online as well as seeing if the local book store can order me a copy.
You should take the time to read up on it, since it's important to your project if you intend to try using serial comms over the IR link. Nigel knows his stuff. I've not yet tried communicating over IR or RF, but I've read his explanations of it enough to trust him.
As I understand it, RS-232 comms (serial communications) needs tight timing, controlled by a clock signal, to work right. Going over an IR or RF link, there is no common clock signal and this messes up the timing. Therefore, other encoding schemes are used instead.
I'd recommend searching the forum for "Manchester" and google "manchester encoding" for more information.
Once i did use UART signals over cheap RF modules and it worked no problem as long as the baud rate was kept low enough. The modules ware rated for 2400bps only anyway. UART worked at that speed but about every 50th character was corrupt but using a lower speed it worked no problem. But i cant be positive if it works like that for IR too since i havent tryed that.
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