Visit my page, I've got a pic program and simple qbasic example for sending data to a pic. I've also just started doing RS232 communications. I've got some help from the list over the last couple of days for serial input to a PC also, but haven't put that on my page yet. Glad to help, Joe visit my page - www.crosswinds.net/~joeh100 e-mail me @ - joeh100@crosswinds.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamey Schroeder <jamey-schroeder@HOME.COM> To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 8:14 AM Subject: [PIC]: Serial Communications With A PC Using pic16F84A > Hello, > > I'm just starting to get into PIC programming and have been able to do a few > simple projects. I'm currently trying to use a serial port of a pc to > communicate with the PIC. I'm using a 16F84A with a 4Mhz crystal. > > What I'm looking for is an example of how to send data to the pic from the > pc from within QBasic or preferably Visual Basic. I'm not very fluent with > either language so its hard for me to break down complicated programs. What > I'm trying to do is to light an LED based on a selection from the computer. > For example, I would have a menu in Visual Basic that would have four > buttons and when one was pressed would cause a LED to light for a few > seconds. I understand that what I will probably need to do is send a byte > of data to the PIC and compare to some preselected values assigned to the > LED's and when a certain value is recieved turn on that LED. I just don't > know how to send a byte to the pic and have it save it into a register. > > I've found a few examples on the internet for rs232 communications from the > pic to the pc and was able to get the message "Hello World" to print from a > QBasic program. I haven't been able to find a example of how to send data > to a PIC. > > One other thing I was interested in is when sending data to a pc does it > always save the value in ASCII. What I mean is, what I mean is I have > purchased a 24LC64 eprom and wanted to read a value from memory from within > the pc and have it save to a file but I want the hex saved. When I printed > the Hello World message the PIC sends the values in hex and QBasic printed > its ASCII value. How would I get it to print the actual hex value? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > Jamey Schroeder > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.