Table of Contents

SECTION 1 Hardware Tools

Chapter 1

• Introduction
• Our Goal
• The Master plan
• Getting the Act together
• What is a microcontroller ? and Which microcontroller?
• Which PIC language?
• The Software Shopping List
• The Tutor
• Text Editor
• MicroChip’s MPLAB
• The program to get our program into the PIC
• Starter Kit
• Defining the Computer
• Sensors
• The PIC’s 18 pins
• Where to find the Starter Kit

Chapter 2

• The PCB
• The PCB Shopping List
• The Theoretical Circuit
• Component List
• The Electrical circuit Diagram
• The PCB track Layout process
• PCB layout program
• I Boob… No, two boobs
• The Print process.
• Calibrating the Scale
• Other print problems
• More Boobs… ExpressPCB was right !
• Other print process problems?
• WARNING Chemicals WARNING
• Waste elimination

Chapter 3

• Photographic Stuff
• Photographic shopping list
• The Photo frame
• The Chemicals
• Mixing the Chemicals
• The Test strip
• Exposing the PCB Tracks
• Here we go this is real
• Drilling the board

CHAPTER 4

• Inserting and Soldering the Components
• Colour code
• The PIC programmer
• Final shopping List
• Component List

SECTION 2 Writing Code for the PIC

CHAPTER 5

• Introduction
• The First attempt to define the bike computer
• Start of my original notes
• End of my original notes
• The First Steps after pseudo code
• Making Firstest Work
• What to do with the HEX file
• Setting up ICPROG
• Summing up

CHAPTER 6

• A simple Hex to Decimal routine
• Debugging " myh2dec.asm" with MPASM
• The Watch Window
• The F5, F6, F7 and ( control + F9 ) keys
• The StopWatch Window
• Debug Break settings
• The Stack window
• Summing up using MPASM
• The Basic Windows
• The Menus we have used till now

CHAPTER 7

• MPLAB Number Formats
• Letter Case conventions
• More on generating code
• The hex2dec Time problem with Big number

CHAPTER 8

• The Bike Computer Flow diagram, simple version
• The Flow-Chart
• Resolution Available
• Back to the Flow Chart
• The Automatic menu
• The Complete Loop Execution Time
• Compromises

CHAPTER 9

• Nuts and Bolts
• Math routines
• LOGIC routines
• Conversion routines
• HEX to DECIMAL
• HEX FRACTIONS to DECIMAL FRACTIONS
• NUMBER SCALING
• LCD Setup, Signalling and data transfer routines
• Automatic menu (2)
• Bike3.asm
• The END Product the HEX file
• CONCLUSION

SECTION 3 Putting it together

Chapter 10 Construction Notes

• The Wheel rotation Sensor
• What is the Hall effect?
• There are two main types of Hall device
• The Bike mounted PCB
• Bike only Theoretical diagram
• The Box

Appendix 1 Revised diagrams for development System

• PCB of Bike computer and test accessories.
• The Theoretical diag. +component layout