This sounds like an interesting project. Does anybody know if someone has attempted anything with an IDE/CF interface using PICBasic (Pro)? I've tried looking on search engines like metacrawler.com and keep hitting on PIC IDE development environs, (doe!) Dillan -----Original Message----- From: pic microcontroller discussion list [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Brush Sent: 09 June 2004 21:05 To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: [PIC:] Anyone Tried PIC16F877 & IDE Good luck with your project. Personally I have no need for Compact Flash cards at all. If they happen to be compatible with my hard drive interface, that'd be a bonus, but doesn't really matter. I just finished soldering some parts into the board, I guess I'll use wire-wrap wire to connect everything point-to-point underneath the protoboard ... it usually seems to work. I just have 2 small questions if anyone feels like answering. 1. Am I gonna need extra memory besides the PIC16F877's memory? 2. Does the PGM pin need to be grounded for ICSP, and if so, how do I do that and still use that pin normally? (PS. Don't answer this if you don't want, I'm sure I could find it on the somewhere, just thought I'd ask while I was posting). Oh, also, isn't there a memory card (sandisk or something) that has a SPI interface? Why would anyone bother with Compact Flash if that's the case? Wouldn't it be WAY easier to just use the PICs SPI port than to setup the IDE interface? Thanks for the input guys, much appreciated! Peace MJ Brush ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Olson" To: Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 3:06 PM Subject: Re: [PIC:] Anyone Tried PIC16F877 & IDE > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Matthew Brush wrote: > ... > > It's too bad I'm too broke to order a PCB from ExpressPCB (or > > similar), I'm > > gonna have to point-to-point solder this whole thing, ARG! Oh well, > > I guess > > it's cheaper to fix P2P soldering than cutting/jumpering traces on a real > > PCB. > > > > Thanks again for the info, if any has actually done this, and has > > any experiences, I'm listening. > ... > > For early prototyping with a CF card, I took some tiny gauge wire > solid core (I think 28 Gauge, maybe 26. I can look later tonight if > you like), striped one end and directly inserted it into the compact > flash card. The other end I crimped into a high density d-sub male pin > to connect to a solderless breadboard. (The female high density pins > are great for tapping into IDC connectors.) > > I havn't finished writing the code for my own CF project (Just started > a few days ago and don't really have anything to feed the data stream > to > yet) and I'm using the memory mode interface rather than IDE mode. > > -- Michael Olson > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu