and no, it's not a "how do I........." thread
Well I have been through a lot of the tutorials, and sort of kind of probably understand, but its a bit like being a passenger in a car, you don't really learn the route until you drive it yourself, so I thought up a nice simple little project.
Walk-me-home headlights - you know the sort of thing, flash your headlights after you park and they stay on for a period of time, so you can see your front door lock etc.
It's pretty simple to do it with ordinary electronics, so using a pic needs to bring something else to the party, a programable delay. taa daaaar
# With the ignition off, a headlight flash will cause the lights to stay on for between 5 and 60 seconds - to the nearest second
# Programming to be achieved my working the headlights manually, and 'recording' the on time
# development using pickit2 and assembler
# pic16f690, as included with pickit2
# relay output
I will update the thread with ideas, jibberish, code etc as it procedes
so far the
**broken link removed** is done. please forgive the non standard way I have drawn the Ignition checking - it pops out, checks, and pops back in again
now I am thinking as a development tool, it can start of by trickling through the process as i have shown, but then i can change it to use interupts and timers, once i understand them.