Here is the documentation of my next step: driving the LED display. The design and the C code were not really difficult; the steps to put the results here were. As I noted before I use a PIC 16F887, but … Continue reading
Even though I use a big 40 pin PIC for my experiments I decided to try how sharing output pins for multiple purposes works. To do that I use two 74HCT573 (PDF) octal latches. The goal is to drive 16 … Continue reading
I was trying my first program both on my laptop and on my desktop machine and for some reason it wouldn’t work on the desktop machine. Of course there was a very good reason for that. I thought that I … Continue reading
I found the wonderful tutorials at Gooligum. That stuff will keep me reading for days. In the first one for Basic Midrange I/O in C (PDF) a few methods are described to get accurate delays using either the HI-TECH C PRO … Continue reading