After I built my first Pinguino, I decided to do some experiments on using crystals of different frequencies. By default, Pinguino uses a 20 Mhz crystal, since most of the crystals I have run at 16 Mhz I decided to…
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I was in the process of building tools necessary to bootstrap the hardware needed for PIC development. So far, I have built a simple parallel port programmer and have used it to flash…
I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I decided to give PIC family MCUs a spin after having been working with AVR chips for sometime. From a pure technological stand point PIC programming and AVR programming are not…
I have been using AVR for quite a while but have never used any PIC micro-controllers from Microchip. It seems that both AVR and PIC camps have very strong preferences towards their own technologies and there are lots of AVR…