Week 3.0
I got my pic chip hooked up with an analogue pet in after discovering that the ground cable on my pote had fallen off in my lab box. I did a quick awful soldering job and hooked up the chip into the serial reader. Upon first plugging into the computer I found that I was not getting any readings out of my pote. I later found that I had my transmit and recieve ports switched around on my serial connector. After a switch, I was getting numbers gallore. I wired up an LED and another switch to portb.0 and got a reading on how many times the switch turned on and off. I got the LED to respond to the switch but was not able to wire up 8 LEDS like the lab suggested due to the fact that I was about to fall over from exhaustion...i will try to do it this week and also post pictures of my breadbord as soon as I bring in my digicam
Week 2.0
I wired my PIC chip to the breadboard with 2 LED's that flickered on and off at 300/600 millisecond intervals.
I then hooked a switch into teh board and connected an output to a small motor. When I press the switch, the motor turns on and off also in the 300/600 interval. The motor was a total bitch to solder because its wires were smaller and therefore couldn't be plugged directly into the board
Week 1.0
I made this lovely little LED row light up and was very
happy. I've never done any physcomp before and this was increadibly rewarding
Each LED is connected to a resistor creating a parallel circuit. Eventually I want to hook this up to some kind of sound sensor and create an LED EQ system.
Big dreams. No idea how to accomplish them...