On 21/11/2010 15:05, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> James Newton wrote:
>
>> Tell me that you would plug in some code you already have that
>> transmits the register value on a single pin to a serial port on your
>> PC.
> If I really needed to know what a A/D reading was in this setup as a
> one-off, I would probably use two pins, one clock and one data.  A sequen=
ce
> of 10 clocked bits is short enough to be captured on a scope and then
> analysed by hand.  It's only 10 bits after all.
>

Yes, that's the kind of thing I was thinking of when I mentioned bit=20
banging stuff - a couple of pins, or maybe just one Tx pin if they are=20
in short supply, then you could use the PicKit2 UART tool. I have done=20
this quite a lot - I just use the PGC/PGD pins as the Tx/Rx so it saves=20
having to move the PicKit2 connections at all.



>> Or some other abuse I haven't
>> even dared to imagine.
>>
>> I'm your bitch, bring it "Master".
> Wow, you ran out of small furry animals to kick or something?  I was tryi=
ng
> to help.  Remember, you came here asking for advice.  My life will go on
> just fine whether you ever get this working or not.  I'm willing to help,
> but if I'd known you were going to be a jerk about it I wouldn't have
> bothered.
>
> I had thought of going back and deleting some of the things I said above,
> but I already spent the time on them before I realized you decided to be =
a
> arrogant ingrate.  Maybe they will help someone else trying to debug a sm=
all
> PIC project.
>

ROFL - only on the PicList.....


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