This site is about the use of “Programmable Interface Controllers” - commonly called PICs. It started as a request from a fellow Electronic Products teacher for a suitable, cheap circuit to use as an introduction to PICs for year 10 students. I met this person on a training course run by Key Stage Developments. I would thoroughly recommend their courses on electronics in general and PICs in particular.
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Click HERE to visit their site.
Perhaps you already know what they are and can do, and need to know about the systems available.
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For an introduction to common PICs systems in use in education at the moment, go to the Revolution Education site HERE.
If you are already familiar with PICs but want to program them on your own boards, “BYTE” magazine has a number of such articles. One by Robert Frantz is worth looking at. This is about a circuit for programming the 16F627 chip using the parallel port of a standard PC. If you use the circuit I describe later, you won’t need this type of programming facility, as I use the PICAXE version of the 16F627, which can easily be interfaced on a board with just a serial socket and a few pull-up/pull-down resistors.
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Click HERE to view the “BYTE” article if you think it sounds useful.
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