If you have a Beaglebone black and when you apply power you get a short flash on the power LED, one thing to check is if the board is damaged. We show how in this short note. It took a while but found that checking if the resistance across C15 on the bottom of the […]
This fix refers to the library version release 12 April 2011. When using an Explorer 16 board and setting the Macro definition of EXPLORER16_100P in MPLab, parts of the library do not pick it up correctly rendering the heartbeat LED and the UART to not work. No compilor error is noticed. In the file lib\include\pic24_libconfig.h […]
Hi again. Onto the next example, this time on page 295 (figure 8.28). The code for this one is called ‘ledtoggle_nofsm’ and it’s in the chap8 folder. Now that we’ve defined EXPLORER16_100P in the pic24_all.h file, here is a new checklist to use: Double click on the project file for the exercise your wanting to […]
Continuing with Chapter 8, the next file is the one referred to in Figure 8:5 Improved code example for flashing LED. It takes the previous one and modifies it using macro’s. Well we sort of used macros in the last one to break out the Explorer 16 version and the original. This file is called […]
My Explorer 16 development board arrived yesterday so have been playing with it. Initially the example code that came with the PIC24FJ128GA010, doing some basic things like modifying the looping LCD text, then writing my first program to test the LED’s on the board. Had to make sure it all worked. And as usual stuff from […]