The usual progression of things is:
1- blink 1 led on & off. If you have a meter, you can just watch a bit you 
have set as output.
2- read a switch on a pin set to input and set the led bit accordingly.
Keep a copy of the Datasheet handy, it has most everything you need to know 
about a given chip.
The number one mistake everyone makes is confusing whether they are looking 
at a top view of the pin out or a bottom view.

Until something works, you don't really know if the programmer works.
There is a multitude of information available in the archives here and 
elsewhere on the net. If it is overwhelming, consider the books from Square 
One.

It does not get any less complicated than 
http://www.voti.nl/blink/index.html
Go to blink a led, and locate the 16F627, 16F628, 16F818, 16F819 , 16F87, 
16F88
   with internal OSC and /MCLR example.
If you power it with 3 dry cells you can eliminate the filtering across the 
power supply, but it will be more reliable with the filter. You can 
eliminate the connector because you are using an external programmer. You 
will need to add a switch or wire to effect a MCLR reset function.


John Ferrell    W8CCW
"My Competition is not my enemy"
http://DixieNC.US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Wrock" <mikewrox@hotmail.com>
To: <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 1:43 AM
Subject: [PIC] 16f627/8 beginner


>
> Ok, so I went out and bought a vallman pic programmer kit. It programs 
> PIC's
> and has a few switches and led's so i cant test out my programs.
>
> This is great, but as soon as I pull the pic out and put it in a 
> breadboard,
> i don't know what to do next. I know where to hook up the power and what
> voltage (I think) but I dont know how to hook up the switches and led's
> because I can't seem to get things to work.
>
> The next step after that, is I want to know how to detect different 
> voltages
> in my input pins. I was hoping on making a little robot the would follow a
> little infrared led emitter. I figured I would put 2 recievers on my 
> robot,
> and whichever indicated it saw the most infrared light, the robot would 
> turn
> in that direction.
>
> Anyways, for the last few weeks I've been looking around for info, but 
> alot
> of it is too far over my head, or just to simple for what I want to do. 
> Any
> help to get me started so I can continue experimenting and learing would 
> be
> greatly appreciated,
>
> Thanks, Mike
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