Hey Alex, For the angle, you can use a rotation sensor, you can use a rotation encoder (do a search for "encoder" at http://www.digi-key.com - they have 99 part numbers that you can choose from). As for a compiler, take a look at "PICC Lite" from HT-Soft, http://www.htsoft.com. PICC Lite is a C compiler for the PIC16F84 and PIC16F627 that can be integrated with the MPLAB IDE. Good luck, myke ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 11:44 AM Subject: Antenna Controller > I am a newbie to using PICs and have been reading and experimenting using > Mike Predko's book and some others. I have decided that a project would be > the best way to get further involved and get more experience. > I would like to build an improved controller for an amateur radio antenna > that I use. > It has a large variable capacitor that is motor driven. The control box has > four buttons; up, down and coarse,fine. This cause pulses to be sent to the > motor and the capacitor turns the capacitor to tune. I would like to use a > PIC so that some of the points in the tuning range could be stored and > returned to without the "manual" tuning that I have to do now. > The two things that change are capacitance and angular rotation. I suppose > angular rotation would be easiest to store,but would mean adding something > to the shaft that could be counted. The rotation is about 80 degrees and has > switches that indicate the end of travel. > I know this is asking a lot for a new guy, but if you could just point me > to some other projects that might be similar or suggestions in general how > to do it. > One last question. I have been using assembler and the Epic programmer, but > would Basic or C make my life easier especially with bigger projects. I have > some programming experience with both. > > Thanks very much > > Alex > > -- > 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.