Kate Bauer- Lab 3
Sai - As usual, you can read about my lab here.
Joseph - Lab3 (pictures) So much fun.
Kazu - Link
Teresa- had a little trouble at first with setting the board up and programming the pic. But then had someone look at my set-up and my LED's were in wrong. Other than that all went well.
Aaron - So I was editing this as at the same time as Teresa and hope I undid deleting everyhing correctly. This lab was fun, though I had a few problems because there was a short in my breadboard that caused it to keep blowing up five volt regulators. Teresa let me borrow her breadboard, however, so I was able to do the lab. I really liked using variables, and was able to make a pot turn and off multiple LEDs? and also put together a switch system for my groups observation presentation on the 8th.
xiaochang - Ran into some minor problems setting up the serial out, but it turned out it was because I forgot to define the oscillator. After that, I ran into a little problem hooking up the LEDs? since I didn't have room for resistors. Basically, strange occurances of LEDs? turning on and off at will. After I squeezed the resistors in, everything evened out. The rest of the lab was a breeze. Code and photos here.
kati london - After initial excitement, I had major problems with this lab. I got my board all set but did could not get the first code working. I tried many different permutations of my board and realized that I had forgot my masterclear, once I fixed this I still could not get the potentiometer details to show up in the computer. Carly suggested that I always start every board with a blinky light to test that the board is working, and run a 'hello world' to see that the chip is working. I got the blinky light going, but could not get the 'hello world' out----so, fed up, I will revisit it tomorrow. Many questions on this lab. See update to lab here
Bennett - Well I didn't manage to really complete any parts of this lab. I tried to go in the order that was presented on the website. I soldered a serial connection together and got it onto my board, but I couldn't get the computer to recieve any of the data from the potentiometer. I had a lot of questions about the code too, as we hadn't gone over it in class or really mentioned serial at all, plus there were some discrepencies between the definition stuff on the website code and the code I had in my notes from class. Hesitant to just copy and paste code without really understanding what I was doing, I put it aside. Came in later, thinking I would go the other route - get the variable data to be displayed visually by LEDs?. Used code pretty similar to last week, plus the ADC definitions, but still no dice. I got the error in writing the code where it tells you there is "an error in line 0000" and every subsequent line after that. Ran out of time. This is frustrating, as I feel I understand the concepts, but could not get anything to work! Grrrr. Would like to talk more about this one in class please.
Mikro - I'm close to caught up maybe. Thanks Xiaochang for the serial connector and Rocio for some last minute tips. I cant wait to make the PIC "freqout" http://www.mikereger.net/ITP/archives/2006/02/pcomp_lab_3_ana.html
Joanna - Here's my 3rd lab.
Viviana Espinosa - I got the potentiometer to control one light, I did not have time to try more lights or a series of them. I have a video that will have to make smaller to upload soon.
Angela - I had problems understanding the serial part of this lab - I wasn't having any luck getting the serial to return any numerical values when using the pot. Unfortunately, I ran out of time to work on it - I'll have another go at it in the next day or two...
Take 2! I met with MLuck?? and reviewed what was happening in the code step by step, and how to setup serial communication. So I went back to my code, compiled and plugged in my breadboard. My regular testing LED was erratic, test blinky kept repeating, and green LED controlled by the pot was erratic too. I checked all my connections and found the problem in my power supply attachment - my solder to ground had come off, so I think that's why the darn thing wasn't working properly. As soon as that was resolved - yay! the pot was changing the serial communication values and everything was just lovely. More
Christin- Lab 3 was a major bust
che http://itp.nyu.edu/~ms1434/pcomp/index.php/Che/ChetanMangat
Won week3 lab
Kenny http://kmitp.egloos.com