Well, feel free to ask questions. The microchip forums can be rather daunting to get some of the basic questions answered. At first, the biggest challenge is just to get a project that will compile.
If you already have a hex file, you can load it into the windows pickit2 loader, and you don't need to run mplab at all. On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Cathrine Hribar <bhri...@bresnan.net>wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 06:51:38 -0400 > Erik Friesen <e...@aercon.net> wrote: > > I don't know whether you'll have to switch or not. You can still try > > mplabx, but it may take some effort to get everything going. You can > turn > > in a support ticket now, its just whether or not you want to spend the > time > > getting it going. Personally, after an initial test, I am letting others > > go through the headache before I try again. The IDE is much better > though, > > so I am using the IDE and debugging with 8. > > > > Why did you pick the 30 series? I prefer the 33 series, although they > are > > 3.3 volts. The ADC's on the 30 series don't seem very linear to me. > Most > > new development seems to be with the 33 series. > > > Hi Erik: > > I may just load this stuff up on my xp machine and do what I need. > > Your dealing with a complete amateur here. I am not a programmer, yet, at > least with the dspic's. I am building a servo board that someone else > designed and wrote a c program for. > > While I have wrote several programs, long ago. Back then, I was writing > instructions for a coordinate measurement machine called a cordex. These > instructions were in the form of very early numerical control format. > The numerical controlled milling centers, that were in the shop, used the > same > type of punched paper tape my machine did, for recording the program, but > the > commands for their machines were g code and mine was not. A few years > after I > moved to Florida and opened my art studio, I realized that the stuff I was > writing was not much different than basic. Bendex corp. changed the > format of > the commands, but I think that is all it was. If I wanted to read the code > for > errors, I had to have the terminal print it, no monitor. > > I am a man in a cardboard box, in the middle of the river, without a > paddle! > > > Bill > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
