Re: [Usbpicprog-technical] adding PIC projects as examples ?

[Francesco <f18...@ya...>]

Hi Frans,

2010/3/25 Frans Schreuder <fra...@gm...>:
> I this is a very good idea, but maybe also a community thing to do. I
> think I can make a few examples with different compilers, but shall I
> make a page on the website with a submit form or something like that in
> order to be able to have contributions from the community?
well, I was proposing to add just a couple examples very very simple
(and thus portable among many PICs and easy to realize on e.g.
breadboards for quick tests)... community inputs may be useful to
build something different like a collection of hobbyst PIC projects. I
think that it could be a good start to add a few small examples and
add a notice on the website that user projects (of limited complexity)
are welcome and can be posted on this mailing list (I don't think
forms are well-suited for posting multiple files / code).
Then we'll see how many users propose their projects and eventually
develop more appropriate features for sharing user pic projects ;)

One thing to consider however is that the more code we add to the repo
the more code we have to maintain, comment, fix, etc. So simply adding
everything we can add may not be the best choice.

> I think it would be good to also deliver some example schematics.
yes, good idea, although what I had in mind was to require as less hw
as possible (e.g. an R+C for the PIC oscillator and a R+LED for
blinking) and thus a schematic maybe not be so much necessary. But
adding it would of course be a plus.

> For
> that we will need a standard tool - shall we suggest KiCad for that?
Personally I always use Cadsoft EAGLE for schematics and layouts and
MicroCap for simulations (yes I know: neither of them is open-source
:/ but free student/limited versions are available for both) . I used
Kicad only for opening usbpicprog schematics but I've found it a bit
messy (icons not clear, menus partially translated and partially not,
and often translated wrong, commands uncomfortable to use, redrawing
not always working, etc).
Nonetheless given that the schematics should be very simple I think it
would be ok to go with KiCad...

> I will give it a shot!
great!

Francesco

PS: I can provide the MPLAB versions of the projects if you need.