Kate Bauer- Lab 2
Sai - you can read about my second lab here.
Kazu - Link
Joseph - Lab2 (pictures) == great fun. No troubles. Made the 7 LED's blink together when the button is up and do a 'waterfall effect' when the button is down (One LED is off at a time and it passes down the line pausing for half as long each time).
Xiaochang - Lab went pretty well, though I ran into a brief problem when I went to
program the chip. I kept getting configuration errors, and it was taking an usually long
time to try to write onto the chip. At first I thought that I had maybe blown the chip,
but then discovered that the the chip writing program wasn't set to write to the type
of chip I was using. I changed that setting and everything went smoothly. Lots of twinkling little LED's. More details and photos here.
Kenny - Last week, my labtop was broken. I really want to recover my data. So, I attach my temporary site.here.
Joanna - Went fine. You can see more detail here.
Aaron - Went faitly well, I had the same problem as Xiaochang with the text editor not being set to the right kind of chip. The first two parts went off without a hitch. While doing the third one, however, I ran into a few problems. I wanted to use a variable in my program, but my attempt didnt work, so I guess I should wait on that. I got a series of lights to blink when a button is pressed and held down, and then three to
be lit when the button is not pressed. You can view a video of the basic program
here. or to the more xomlpex, multiple LED program here.
kati london - Went well, you can see details here lab2
Teresa - Well I blew up my first chip because I wasn't be that attentive to my wiring so that was fun. Thankfully someone had an extra chip and after that everything went well. I just did a really simple code, basically the one you did in glass and nothing blew up so I was happy.
Bennett - Problems I ran into: Not pushing my microcontroller far enough into the breadboard. Made for lousy contacts and an LED that stayed dim but wouldn't blink, and a lot of unnecessary frustration. I also repeatedly forgot to set Microcode studio and the other program to the correct microcontroller model. When I tried to write code for Part 3 of the lab, I added unnecessary labels in the IF and ELSE sections. Once I removed them I realized that the 'GOTO main' at the end of the entire program accounts for the looping in either the IF or ELSE setting. Details over in my journal, lots
of words, but no pictures.
Won - I burned a microcontroller.
I lost my miccontroller. So I decided to make a circuit first and PIC program later.
I borrowed Kenny's miccontroller. After I finished putting stuffs (I thought), when I powered it, it burned with 'tik' sound and smelled strange. "Haste made waste." Sorry to Kenny. I will figure it out later. Here are pictures of the accident. http://happytorture.blogspot.com/
Viviana Espinosa - I feel guilty when someone burned with my project. It took me hours to figure out why my simple code was not working, but it wasn't the code, it was something plugged in wrong.
Steven helped me figure it out. I guess I should've stepped back from the darn thing,
so I could have a fresh mind when looking at it for a second time. Live and learn... http://itp.nyu.edu/~ms1434/pcomp/uploads/Labs/ve-working.jpg
Angela - Good times, so far. Lab went well - ran into one shoddy LED, but replaced it and got my patterns to light up with a switch. Lab 2
Christin Roman goto Lightmyshit
Mike Reger aka Mikro - http://www.mikereger.net/ITP/archives/2006/02/pcomp_lab_2_my_1.html
che http://itp.nyu.edu/~ms1434/pcomp/index.php/Che/ChetanMangat