I was wondering if any one could comment on how good a deal the product on the front page of ( **broken link removed** ) is? It 33.99 pounds and comes assembled so no soldering required, seems like a pretty good deal. Nigel i would appreicate your opinion on this. Thanks
I was wondering if any one could comment on how good a deal the product on the front page of ( **broken link removed** ) is? It 33.99 pounds and comes assembled so no soldering required, seems like a pretty good deal. Nigel i would appreicate your opinion on this. Thanks
MicroChip mailshot me an orderform for it in December, I filled the form in and faxed it back to one of the four companies listed on the order form (but to date I've heard nothing). The price on the form was £21.55+VAT, and presumably plus postage.
It looks a very useful piece of kit, and a very good price (at £21.55+V), you can download all the software and circuits for it from MicroChip - it's intended as an example of using the MicroChip USB PIC.
The form said to 'fax to your MicroChip authorised distributor', and listed four:
Arrow
Farnell
Future
Unique Memec
I tried ringing, but none of them had heard of it, so I faxed it to Arrow to see what happens (which is nothing yet!, not even a reply).
Presumably he's buying from one of those four, at least his price includes VAT - which only makes it £8 odd more expensive, although he does change £1.99 postage on top.
I think ill give those companies a call tomorow and see if they have heard of it. Its only eight pounds but you also have the security of buying it from a well established trustable business probably with a nice bit of support too.
THanks nigel. BTW i know this is probably like real advanced stuff but how hard would it be to read the characters from a keyboard and show them on an LCD screen?
I think ill give those companies a call tomorow and see if they have heard of it. Its only eight pounds but you also have the security of buying it from a well established trustable business probably with a nice bit of support too.
If you get any sense, please let me know - and I'll try again :lol:
THanks nigel. BTW i know this is probably like real advanced stuff but how hard would it be to read the characters from a keyboard and show them on an LCD screen?
Do PIC's have any memory in them which can be written to while they're in operation? So for instance if you had say a button hooked upto the PIC and someone pressed the button 6 times could that value be stored on the PIC? and then even store even if the PIC has no power?
Do PIC's have any memory in them which can be written to while they're in operation? So for instance if you had say a button hooked upto the PIC and someone pressed the button 6 times could that value be stored on the PIC? and then even store even if the PIC has no power?
Many PIC's have an EEPROM area you can store permanent data in, the 16C84 (the original easily programmable PIC) had 64 bytes.
There's a fairly complex procedure to write to the EEPROM, presumably to stop memory corruption - which seems a good idea, many faults in modern TV's and VCR's are due to EEPROM corruption.