gnupic: blinking leds with usb port
Subject:
Re: blinking leds with usb port
From:
Remco Boom ####@####.####
Date:
1 Mar 2013 08:35:26 -0000
Message-Id: <5130684B.3080204@rsquare.nl>
Actually there is a easy solution
Look at this product UM232H-B Datasheet <http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/DataSheets/Modules/DS_UM232H-B.pdf>
http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/Modules/DevelopmentModules.htm
You can use the io in a serial way but also parallel
On 02/28/2013 06:05 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Byron Jeff writes:
>> The problem with both of these options is the chicken and egg problem of
>> programming the PIC. It instantly stops being a low cost, low hassle
>> project if you have to order and purchase a programmer. One of my long
>> standing projects has been low cost easy to build "code dumpers" that could
>> be used to drop a bootloader onto a self programmable PIC. Then the
>> bootloaded PIC can be used with an appropriate interface for continued
>> programming. The parallel port was the best port for this type of activity.
>> Sadly it, and serial ports (with the exception of USB to serial), a rarely
>> available in modern machines.
> It is too bad there is no modern equivalent of a parallel port for
> exactly this sort of project. But that's the only thing I miss about
> it!
>
> A PICkit 2 programmer costs under $50 and integrating the needed six
> (really five) pin connector into your project is dead easy. To me,
> that seems to meet any reasonable definition of "low cost, low
> hassle".
