Users experience?
Mkstevo's post is about the chip. I got the "easy" 14 dip chip.
It's fussy about circuitry.
I breadboarded the nschip and connected a pic on a zif socket but take the same lines to a pic bread board and errors like can't set lvp bit....when it's set.
In the photo the board is programmed with pickit2. The pic circuit is 3.3V and can be programmed with power or not.
NS complains.
So be prepared.
I cannot comment on using the range of ready made boards.
My comments are about the joys of using "the chip"
It's about circuit layout so vero board is out-parallel tracks. Mention making your own board using the chip..like this thread is about.
Don't get this carp with arduino and gcb:)
Perhaps I was more fortunate than Stan as my experience was totally positive.
My VeroBoard prototypes worked first time, and my simple PCB designs too worked first time. I had an initial failure, when my first PCB arrived, I connected it to my VeroBoard HVP circuit with a 9V battery and optocoupler, set the NSDSP software for HVP and? Failed. Checked all my connections, tried again, scratched my head. Failed. Then it dawned on me that I'd fitted two sockets on the HVP board, one which connected to the NSDSP 'chip' and one that went out to the target device. I'd got the 'In' on my HVP prototype mixed up with the 'Out'! Swapped them around and everything worked. Phew!
I paid no attention in any of my designs to how the tracks were laid out, on the VeroBoard prototypes they do run parallel to one another (though only for a few centimetres) and I had no problems other than not paying attention to my own connection methodology.
The speed of programming has already saved me an enormous amount of time, and, as I have been able to integrate the programmer into the IDE on my iMac my productivity has already been, and will continue to be, increased massively.
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Users experience?
Mkstevo's post is about the chip. I got the "easy" 14 dip chip.
It's fussy about circuitry.
I breadboarded the nschip and connected a pic on a zif socket but take the same lines to a pic bread board and errors like can't set lvp bit....when it's set.
In the photo the board is programmed with pickit2. The pic circuit is 3.3V and can be programmed with power or not.
NS complains.
So be prepared.
I cannot comment on using the range of ready made boards.
My comments are about the joys of using "the chip"
It's about circuit layout so vero board is out-parallel tracks. Mention making your own board using the chip..like this thread is about.
Don't get this carp with arduino and gcb:)
Last edit: stan cartwright 2018-12-11
Perhaps I was more fortunate than Stan as my experience was totally positive.
My VeroBoard prototypes worked first time, and my simple PCB designs too worked first time. I had an initial failure, when my first PCB arrived, I connected it to my VeroBoard HVP circuit with a 9V battery and optocoupler, set the NSDSP software for HVP and? Failed. Checked all my connections, tried again, scratched my head. Failed. Then it dawned on me that I'd fitted two sockets on the HVP board, one which connected to the NSDSP 'chip' and one that went out to the target device. I'd got the 'In' on my HVP prototype mixed up with the 'Out'! Swapped them around and everything worked. Phew!
I paid no attention in any of my designs to how the tracks were laid out, on the VeroBoard prototypes they do run parallel to one another (though only for a few centimetres) and I had no problems other than not paying attention to my own connection methodology.
The speed of programming has already saved me an enormous amount of time, and, as I have been able to integrate the programmer into the IDE on my iMac my productivity has already been, and will continue to be, increased massively.