24 hour business camp

by | Jan 22, 2009 | Hacking

I’m at 24hbc right now where 90 geeks and entrepreneurs has gathered to start, implement and finish 50 project ideas in 24 hours. It’s already been great fun out here at Hasseludden even before we started and it’s gonna be an intense but jolly good ride today and tomorrow. We start coding at 12. If you want you can follow us at several places on the net:
Live Blog
Flickr group and here
Jaiku channel
Twitter backchannel
Onelinr Channel

Progress on the espresso controller

by | Feb 17, 2008 | Hacking, Hardware projects, Kaffe, Mat, PIC

After some struggling around I have now successfully created my first small program in HI-TIDE. I had missed I was looking into the pic1267x.h file when finding defs for my code. The program I tried to compile was the simple debouncer example from the PICkit FLash Starter Kit though it was not specifically written for the 12F675 which I have here. Thus I had to change some of the defs used, e.g. RA5 to GPIO5. I got help from the HI-TIDE Forum that I should look in pic12f6x.h instead which made it much easier to get it to compile:-)

Also solved the powersupply issue. Just take a 220V USB charger, gives a nice 5V with 500 mA!

Espresso controller

by | Jan 5, 2008 | Hacking, Kaffe, PIC

Spent some more times on the new PIC project and found some useful stuff:

Mike Pearce Heater project over at MicroChips webiste is more or less what I intend, atleast when it comes to writing code! So Basically I just need to compile it and build the electronics, atleast for a first version.

And looking for a C compiler I found out that nowadays HTSoft have a free version of their PIC C Compiler. And best of all, it has no limitations for the 12F629 or 12%675 which I intend to use!

And ontop of all these great news I also found out that HTSoft now have an eclipse based IDE! HI-TIDE – HI-TECH Integrated Development Environment

Now I just need to get Mike’s code to compile with the PIC C compiler using the HI-TIDE.

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