by kalle | Sep 24, 2003 | Hardware projects
When I connected the FMS interface I built the other day to my new radio and the laptop I got a very jumpy signal. In the FMS Forum there where two different suggestions what might cause this, either to weak power in the serial port, or the reversed order of the signalcable from my Sanwa radio.
This guy had a similar problem but with another PIC interface, though for this one the source code is available. So maybe I will change mine to that one since the design was similar. Or just reprogram my PIC since I think the design is similar enough to do that, though I have to study it more carefully first.
Also the FMS Forum had a several posts on different hardware interfaces, maybe one can find a simple USB joystick based one there.
by kalle | Sep 21, 2003 | Hardware projects
I just built the PIC 12C50x Serial Interface for FMS(see images below) and was about to program the PIC when I realized I was very unsure how the programmer worked and if I had the software as well to do it. So I though it could be good to write it now when I got it working.
The program to use is IC-Prog. Make sure the Hardware settings are set to Windows API if you use XP as I do. Also select the right com-port.
The IC to program should be placed with pin 1 furthest away from the RS232 connector(in my design that is!).
The design I used for my PIC programemr is from this site though I did not use their PCB layout but rather just used the schematics and built it on a proto-board.
by kalle | Sep 18, 2003 | Software development
The DevMaster.net – Articles and Tutorials webpage has several interesting articles though mainly aiming at game development several are related to computer grpahics.
by kalle | Aug 22, 2003 | Hardware projects
Här är ett antal länkar till lite olika konstruktioner jag hittat för att koppla en radiokontroller tille n PC.
RCFSpic
Enkel parallell ports kabel på For What Its Worth. Här finns en variant av denna kabel.
RC2PC(på franska) nyttjar Joystick porten istället.
Att koppla kontrollern genom USB porten verkar mest flexiblet men kräver lite mer avancerad konstruktion, se här.
by kalle | Jun 27, 2003 | Software development
The following section has to be added to build.xml to have Eclipse run Ant.
<!-- javac resolver -->
<available
classname="org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main"
property="build.compiler"
value="org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.JDTCompilerAdapter"
classpath="${java.class.path}"
/>
by kalle | Jun 27, 2003 | Software development
GExperts Inc – Gel is another Java IDE. It was recommended by people on the TINI-mailinglist. It supposed to be quick to start that is reasonable since it’s not written in Java as several others are.
