On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:24:45AM -0600, Jim Monteith wrote:
> Thanks for the advice.

No problem. I will wax philosophical below on your thoughts below.

> Unfortunately, the wisp won't work for my application.  First, I'm the
> programmer, I was given this project to complete, so I have to work with
> what I have.

I'm not so sure about this one. The long and short of it is that your
existing codebase has problems, and there is a codebase that is stable that
solves the problem you are trying to solve. I never paid attention to
Wouter's licensing of the firmware. But if it works, it is certainly worth
taking a look, right?

>  Also, this is just a small part of the project.  I'm building
> a gang programmer that will program up to 16 pics for an industrial
> application.

I still don't see this as a showstopper. It may almost be worth the cost
to put 1 PIC per socket if the code programs correctly. Then you'd only have
to change the serial interface on the other side, a much easier problem.

>  So, I've got to reinvent this wheel.

I wish you luck.

>
> I'm trying the reading the ID though.  Haven't got it to read yet though.

That's where to start.  You task is actually somewhere back on my list of
things to do. I'm working on writing a 16F port of Wouter's ZPL bootloader.
An auxillary program to that would be a ZPL cloner, where one ZPL enabled
chip can then duplicate itself into another part. But it's on my back burner
at the moment.

BAJ

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