Hi Kurt,

rereading your text I have read "I designed custom PCB's and fabricated them
using the laser toner". What kind of tecnolgy is that?

Could you please explain


Thanks

Regard

Leonardo
>transfer method.
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Kurt Mottweiler <pinhole@LAPLAZA.ORG>
A: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Data: giovedl 9 aprile 1998 5.37
Oggetto: Re: Help for a Neophyte


>Hello Picsters,
>    I am a (very) part time microcontroller user. Although I have been
>hobbling along with MCU's for a number of years now, I have very little
>background for supporting the habit. In general, I have used MCU's for
>controlling cameras I build. (See the web site listed below if you wish to
>see the application.)
>  So here's the deal. I generally have little problem getting things to do
>what I want once I get going (and spend hours plowing through the data
books
>and app notes) but occasionally I am struck with a severe case of imposter
>syndrome. Such is the case now with a convention looming and a balking
>controller. I have successfully assembled and tested my system on a
>breadboard. It is based on a PIC 16C74 running FED PICBASIC. ( I used to
use
>NMI's FORTH kernel 68HC11 and would love to find a similar system for
>PIC's ) I designed custom PCB's and fabricated them using the laser toner
>transfer method.  So with that round about introduction my question is -
>what routines do some of you proficient MCU'ers use to determine why a PIC
>sometimes won't run. I presume my problem is with the crystal circuit since
>moving the system over to the PCB's. I have spent some time checking to
make
>sure that my breadboarded circuit got successfully translated to the PCB's
>and that seems alright. I don't own ( and don't have any experience with )
>an oscilloscope. I do have a DMM and a logic probe and logic pulser. I am
>currently looking through the PIC docs but could really use a seat of the
>pants approach to fixing the problem.
>   I have other questions but this is challenge enough for now.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kurt Mottweiler
>P.O. Box 817
>Ranchos de Taos, NM  87557
>(505) 751-3255
>pinhole@laplaza.org
>http://laplaza.org/~pinhole