TRAIN123 I am looking for someone or a company to write programs. I would tell what the program should do and they would write the program and program the microcontroller. How do I find a programmer?
I am looking for someone or a company to write programs. I would tell what the program should do and they would write the program and program the microcontroller. How do I find a programmer?
Try this guy:
http://www.oaktreesystems.com/main.html?src=%2F
He has done lots of train control projects with microcontrollers. Tell him Sheldon from Maryland sent you.
Sheldon
looks like about 9 years ago i built an electronic speed control for an Electric RC airplane. I used pic processors, was able to download some programming tools and bought a programmer i could plug into a PC parallel port.
i'm an embedded firmware developer, lots of experience controlling HW ( lately radios) with SW and now a days under Linux. I didn't have enough applications to apply pic processors to really justify all my effort, but I felt that the pic processors offered a lot a potential to solve problems requiring a little bit of logic relatively cheaply. However, i see arduino boards aren't that expensive (~$10).
While i primarily write in C, i have lots of experience writing assembler which i felt can better utilize available memory and processing speed if they are a concern (for me they always have been).
If you have the need (or opportunity) for many small programing projects, i would think learning to use the pic (or atmel in arduino) tools to program these pico processors would be satisfying. Learning to prototype and build circuits boards (not arduino) with these processors and application logic, simple regulators and a distributed low voltage supply (~8v) would make it easy to add many of these boards to a layout without a lot of wall warts. Of course ebay makes available a lot of interesting technology to the amateur
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading
I've dabbled. Nothing too deep.
The best programs come from doing in the lower level labguages, but there are some neat tools that can make workable programs without a lot of actual programming - Great Cow Graphical BASIC is one I messed around with to come up with some programs for my development board. That kit is inexpensive and includes step by step lessons to get you started.
If I was starting over, I'd probably get into Aurdino these days, instead of barebones PIC chips. There is such a huge array of options, including the hardware and software libraries, for Aurdino that makes it much easier. Plus because of the added level of abstraction provided by the Aurdio concept, getting your code intot he controller is generally much easier.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Anyone write programs for the PIC microcontrollers or know someone or a company that does?