eblc1388 said:
Yes, RS232 works, but that comes after the PIC been programmed with the necessary code to make sense of the communication.
But at first the PIC is totally blank, don't understand anything about RS232.
hi guys... i'm back again .. want to thank all of u for helping me out in my project...all of u have been a great help to me .. i've almost completed the 1st part of the project.. which was to get the LED blinking. now comes the part where i have to interface the PIC with the PC..
So i found out that i did not need bootloader to blink my LED:
--- when does the bootloader comes into the picture?? is it when i want the PIC to communicate with the PC??
a way to upload program into the PIC was thru a programmer called " pic start plus" which i could only use in the lab :
--- now i want to upload programs at home where i don have the pic start plus
--- so do i use a serial port RS232 ... with the MAX 232 level converter to upload program into the PIC..
my PIC has only the LED blinking program in it .... from the quote above, it seems that i need to program something into it so that the PIC can communicate with the PC thru the MAX 232 level converter.. wat will it be?? and do i include the bootloader too ??
in PIC start plus.. i used MPLAB as the software to upload program into the PIC
--- wat do i use if i use serial port?? i've heard of "hyper terminal" .. but i dont know the use of it ...
hope u guys can help me out here... thanx a lot
btw Jay .. the LED blinking program u wrote for me worked very well... thanx very much ....