Thanks, John.

I ran across a reference to a connector for J6, with an "FTDI" sort-of
name, and that got me a bit worried.=20

I have more bloody data sheets than I could read in 6 months! I'm
working my way through the 24 series chip sheets now.


I typically use 18F's, and I use WISP648 and XWISP for loading the
beasts. They have a built-in serial setup, so I can just write serial
data from the PIC and it appears on the PC display. If it just a normal
serial port (as you say), then a MAX232 will allow me to connect to the
PC.=20

Thanks.
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Larry Bradley =20
Orleans (Ottawa) Canada=20

On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 18:56 -0400, John J. McDonough wrote:

> On Sun, 2014-04-13 at 17:49 -0400, Larry Bradley wrote:
> > Alan:
> >=20
> >  I just received my MicroStick II. There is not much information with
> > it! The paperwork does not even mention that it is powered from the USB
> > port!
> >=20
> > What do you know about the "serial port"  (J6) on the board?
>=20
> If you take a peek at the schematic, J6 is connected directly to pins 21
> and 22 of the micro.  Depending on what chip you have, this can be a lot
> of things.  The PIC24 and PIC32 have what they call PPS, or Peripheral
> Pin Select and 21 and 22 are among the pins (at least on the
> PIC23MX250F128B) which are available for PPS.  So you can use it for an
> ordinary serial port, or SPI, or whatever the available peripherals are.
> I gather from the website that the stick ships with a number of PICs.  I
> mention the PIC32 because that exact part happens to be one I am working
> with at the moment.  It is also a pretty darned cool part, if overkill
> for 90% of projects!
>=20
> So, if you want to hook it to your PC, you will need a MAX232 or
> similar.  But if you want to talk to the PIC circuit six inches away,
> you're in business.
>=20
> So probably the first step is to download the datasheets for the PICs
> supplied with the stick.
>=20
> --McD
>=20
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