Personal Mechatronics Lab

Blog Posts

PIC delay code generator

Posted by Yifan Wang on August 17, 2010 at 5:30pm

Places to Buy Stuff (that are actually open)

Posted by Greg Hoy on January 22, 2012 at 5:00pm — 8 Comments

Moving Relocatable Code Files - org Directive

Posted by Mark J. Sutherland on March 2, 2011 at 2:55am — 2 Comments

RTC + PIC18 = <3

Posted by Sebastian Kosch on February 19, 2011 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

PIC16 Table Lookups - A Guide

Posted by Jack Sparrow on January 28, 2011 at 1:00am — 6 Comments

Integration 2: Mounting the Drive Circuit, Battery and initial Sensors

Posted by Abigail Amu on February 28, 2012 at 11:30pm

Proposal Reflections and the first day in the shop

Posted by Abigail Amu on January 30, 2012 at 7:55pm

Coming Down to the Wire - Second team eval next week!

Posted by Abigail Amu on March 20, 2012 at 7:21pm

Code too long?

Posted by Matt Nejati on January 26, 2011 at 9:47pm — 10 Comments

Introduction to Serial Communications (RS232)

Posted by PML on August 14, 2010 at 2:00pm

Videos

[Team 41] AER201 Pinball Chip Packer

Added by Denis Burkov

AER201 - Ping-Pong Ball Packer

Added by Douglas Chong

Ping Pong Packaging Machine - AER201

Added by Tyler Colaco

Ball-packer group - Test run

Added by Soon Kyu Lee

Test Run on March 27th

Added by Tongbin Wu

Forum

Laptop not recognizing the board 7 Replies

Hey guys, I recently updated my mac and i don't know if there is anything related, but i can't put the code into my board anymore. Sometimes I can't click on the "make and program" bottom. When I do, I doesn't seem to detect any board connected to…Continue

Started by Kenny Kim in Microcontroller. Last reply by kakakaoo May 28.

Candlelight dimensions 2 Replies

Does anyone have the candlelight on them? If so, can you tell me the height of any one of the three ridges the candlelight sits on? Thanks.Continue

Started by Jai Bansal in Electromechanical. Last reply by kakakaoo May 28.

LCD Black Blocks 2 Replies

Anybody know the reason black boxes (filled in) appear on LCD screen when i send the command to write something on it.Continue

Started by Nayab Saeed in Microcontroller. Last reply by kakakaoo May 28.

ADC sample code 9 Replies

When I tried to run the sample ADC code, the board seems to have problems. I connected RA0 with a proximity sensor which gives an output ~1.88V. RD0 the debugger LED) should blink with the speed corresponding the voltage as explained by the sample…Continue

Started by Kenny Kim in Microcontroller. Last reply by kakakaoo May 28.

Right/left justifications A/D conversion 4 Replies

Hi guys, can someone please explain what exactly right and left justifications are for A/D conversion in the ADCON2 register?Continue

Started by Kenny Kim in Microcontroller. Last reply by kakakaoo May 28.

Using W as source registers 3 Replies

I just found out the hard way(almost an hour of debugging in the simulator) that if you use W as the source register for the RRF and RLF instructions, the microcontroller does something really strange. Just letting everyone know in case someone else…Continue

Started by Kenny Kim in Microcontroller. Last reply by kakakaoo May 28.

Could not acquire hardware tool communications resources: PICkit2PlatformTool 3 Replies

Does anyone know how to solve this in MPLABX? I keep getting this message when I try to download the compiled program to the devBugger:"The programmer could not be started: Could not acquire hardware tool communications resources:…Continue

Started by Kenny Kim in Microcontroller. Last reply by kakakaoo May 28.

PIC comparison 1 Reply

For your referenceContinue

Started by Kenny Kim in Microcontroller. Last reply by kakakaoo May 28.

Timer for PIC16 9 Replies

PIC16 people - how are you going about timing your code? The timers build in... can they go to 90 second? Right now it seems easier to try and get the RTC to work and just subtract values from there... opinions?Continue

Started by Kenny Kim in Microcontroller. Last reply by kakakaoo May 28.