This Forum is Dedicated For all The Object Oriented PIC Lovers .......... The concept behind OOPic is straight forward. Use preprogrammed multitasking Objects from a library of highly optimized Objects to do all the work of interacting with the hardware. Then write small scripts in Basic, C, or Java syntax styles to control the Objects. During operation, the Objects run continuously and simultaneously in the background while the scripts run in the foreground telling the objects what to do.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

[oopic] Re: where's the parallel cable?

--- In oopic@yahoogroups.com, "bimityedye" <bimityedye@...> wrote:
>
> --- In oopic@yahoogroups.com, ooPIC Tech Support <dennis.clark@>
> wrote:
> Thanks guys that was helpful! Here's the story!
> Before I went to the forum for advice, I was getting a dialog box
> that said "Internal error in PortInp of I2CFuncs" and the the
> comliler would lock-up and I would have to resort to Task Manager to
> end the program. Now that dialog box has been replaced with one that
> sez' just 'Parallel port not found' and even though I manually tell
> the IDE what port to use, still no-go. Can I some how use my serial
> cable to program the 'S' boards? Maybe some sort of converter cable
> to put between the serial cable and the 'S' board's programming port?
> I hate to think I just blew $140 for nothing! Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Dave W.

Sure, you can use a serial adapter like
http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/126

Connect RX to pin 37 of the
40 pin header, connect TX to pin 39. Connect VCC to a +5 pin and Gnd
to a Gnd pin and you are all set.

I use Jameco 736456 with heatshrink to make connections to the header.
I also cut up wirewrap sockets (like Jameco 196841) to get pins for
the +5 and GND pads. See www.jameco.com

Serial programming works better anyway. Just don't forget to put
OOPic.Delay = 5000 (use 500 for V5 of the compiler) as the first
executable statement.

Richard

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