MeetingNotes28

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Marvin presented some new creations that moved!

Low End Microcontroller Intro  Special Interest Group  

We were able to complete all these tasks as part of a Hello world (blinky led) project

1 Using a pic16F683 8 pin micro, build a circuit on a breadboard with an LED and support components.
2 Design the circuit in Eagle cad and create a board template which if printed could be used to build the same circuit on an etched PCB. Eagle also has a Linux version
3 On a windows laptop with MPLAB then demonstrate using it to produce the blinky software application
4 Compile a PIC assembly program that I found and ported to the '683 chip but havent yet tested.
5 Step through it in the simulator to see if it is working
6 Install a PIC programmer like ICD2 then figure out how to use it, connect the programmer to the windows machine and the chip and flash the application to the PIC
7 Power up the breadboard and see that the LED blinks