gnupic: beginning microcontroller programming
Subject:
Re: beginning microcontroller programming
From:
Tim ODriscoll ####@####.####
Date:
25 Jul 2002 09:46:31 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0207251024490.3669-100000@telemachus.stokepogesway.net>
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 ####@####.#### wrote:
>
> is there a good source for hardware online? what should i get to start
> with? how about textbooks ?
>
Hey Matt,
I'm pretty new to PICs too, and I bought "Easy PIC'n" and "PIC'n up the
pace" from www.sq-1.com ... Two damn fine books and although I found "Easy
PIC'n" a bit complicated at first, I keep referring back to it and
thinking, "Oh!, *that's* what that bit does!"
These books are pretty much completely based on the 16f84, but that suits
me fine as it seems to be the most popular type and with a little
grunting, you can get some pretty complex designs going with several of
these chips talking to each other. All the code in the books is in
assembly which I actually find easier than C and Perl because there's only
a few variations of the command set and it reminds me of BASIC so much :)
I use 'gputils' to compile the assembly code into a hex file, then
'prog84' to upload it to the chip via a homebuilt serial-port programmer.
HTH,
Tim
(not affilatied with sq-1.com in any way, except as a customer!)
