On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:03:23AM -0600, Pic Dude wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just got into PICs and found this list.

Welcome. One small administrative note: If possible could you hard wrap your
lines when sending to the list. Some of us have mail readers that won't
autowrap. Thanks,


>  These PIC's are really neat devices, though I bet you know that already.
> I've been involved in digital electronics for quite some time so I do have a
> headstart.  For my planned projects, I'll be working primarily with the 16F84
>  and 16F872 chips for now, and using Linux.

One suggestion. Ditch the 16F84/16F84A parts and step up to the 16F628. Same
pinout as the 16F84, more features all the way around, and cheaper.

Any 16F87X part is a keeper.

Here's an archive post of mine describing the 16F628 features:

(NOTE! PASSWORDED SITE! user name and password are both 'piclist')

http://www.infosite.com/~jkeyzer/piclist/2001/Jul/2315.html


>
> Could use some help getting my evironment setup.
> I've got a few PIC16F84A's, built a Tait Programmer and have been able to
>successfully download and run a sample hex file using PP-0.6 under Linux.

You can also take a look at my PIC page:

http://www.finitesite.com/d3jsys

It has among other things a low voltage Tait style programmer, picprog2.3b
programming software for Linux, development resources, and some of my own code.

Check it out. and welcome aboard. You may also want to think about subscribing
to the gnupic mailing list. Check them out at http://www.gnupic.org


BAJ

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