Hello all,
This is my first post and I need help picking a pic and some other componants for my school project. To be honest I'm just in my 3rd semester and haven't had assembly language yet but have programmed a couple of eproms. I have a year to complete this project and finding the parts I need is a bit overwhelming at this point with my current knoweledge.
The project that I submitted is a 10 channel power outlet controlled by a pic & real time clock. The ideal is to turn individual outlets on and off at user set times. It will have and LCD interface with about 8 buttons to set time, on/off values, and to load values into memory and so forth. I would like to have 4 on/off settings per outlet. I'm pretty sure of the extremitys of the circuit after the pic, but interfacing the clock, LCD, pic, buttons, and the programming part, I'm still scetchy about.
any way I figure I need a 16 or 20 pin I/O chip with flash and ram built in but am having a problem locating (no, figuring out) which one to use....also figure I need a real time clock chip and crystal.... and a LCD 2x24 lines should so it.
I realize there is a lot to take into account for this project, but since it based on a real time clock, I need to get the LCD, pic, and clock chip just to keep time and go from there.
I would like to have some suggestions on what pics would be good for this project, using assembly language if possible.
I afraid my project might be a bit ambitious, but I'm hard headed and ready to learn this stuff... my instructors tell me that I'll learn what I need to know to figure this out in the next semester or two but I'd realy like to get started on this now.
Sorry for the long post and any help/suggestions is greatly appretiated,
This is my first post and I need help picking a pic and some other componants for my school project. To be honest I'm just in my 3rd semester and haven't had assembly language yet but have programmed a couple of eproms. I have a year to complete this project and finding the parts I need is a bit overwhelming at this point with my current knoweledge.
The project that I submitted is a 10 channel power outlet controlled by a pic & real time clock. The ideal is to turn individual outlets on and off at user set times. It will have and LCD interface with about 8 buttons to set time, on/off values, and to load values into memory and so forth. I would like to have 4 on/off settings per outlet. I'm pretty sure of the extremitys of the circuit after the pic, but interfacing the clock, LCD, pic, buttons, and the programming part, I'm still scetchy about.
any way I figure I need a 16 or 20 pin I/O chip with flash and ram built in but am having a problem locating (no, figuring out) which one to use....also figure I need a real time clock chip and crystal.... and a LCD 2x24 lines should so it.
I realize there is a lot to take into account for this project, but since it based on a real time clock, I need to get the LCD, pic, and clock chip just to keep time and go from there.
I would like to have some suggestions on what pics would be good for this project, using assembly language if possible.
I afraid my project might be a bit ambitious, but I'm hard headed and ready to learn this stuff... my instructors tell me that I'll learn what I need to know to figure this out in the next semester or two but I'd realy like to get started on this now.
Sorry for the long post and any help/suggestions is greatly appretiated,