Author Topic: Cheap microchip dev kit (Read 29763 times)

BloodyCactus · « **Reply #50 on:** June 22, 2012, 11:29:24 pm »

hmm mine arrived tonight. very nice, small! says its rev4.

1x 24h, 1x 24f, 1x ds33f, 1x pic32, 1x usb cable. seems they put the 24f back in as I see some of you did not get one.
(the 24f is a 64, the other three are 128's).

wierd, inspected on the 20th, overnighted to my house to arrive on the 22nd! wow.

BloodyCactus · « **Reply #51 on:** June 23, 2012, 01:07:28 am »

gah

mplabx does not support Microstick II and its PIC32MX250F128B. doh. all it sees is a 'starter kit (pkob)' with red button.

unsupported.

grrrr

senso · « **Reply #52 on:** June 23, 2012, 04:07:09 am »

Have you installed the PIC32 compiler?
You need to install the IDE and the install the separate compilers, there is one for PIC32, one for 8 bits PICs, and then there is a unified version for the PIC24 and dsPIC, and separate compiler for dsPIC and another for PIC24, but those two are the same, just with less header defines.

T4P · « **Reply #53 on:** June 23, 2012, 05:19:03 am »

Oddly while i'm on MPLAB 8.x i have no problems compiling without the XC32 compiler ... only with the pic24 and dsPIC33 compiler

BloodyCactus · « **Reply #54 on:** June 23, 2012, 01:08:37 pm »

yeah I have all the compilers from c32 v2.02 and all the xc8/16/32 compilers. mplabx just does not yet support microstick2.

T4P · « **Reply #55 on:** June 23, 2012, 02:00:27 pm »

Quote from: BloodyCactus on June 23, 2012, 01:08:37 pm

yeah I have all the compilers from c32 v2.02 and all the xc8/16/32 compilers. mplabx just does not yet support microstick2.

Bloody microchip, and to think mplab X is newer then mplab 8.x

baljemmett · « **Reply #56 on:** June 24, 2012, 02:08:27 am »

Quote from: BloodyCactus on June 23, 2012, 01:08:37 pm

mplabx just does not yet support microstick2.

Yes it does, or at least it was doing a very good impression of supporting it when I just tested it... MPLAB X v1.10, downloaded and installed in mid-March this year; everything worked exactly as described in the instructions that came with the Microstick II (effectively, 'select Starter Kits under Hardware Tools'). Was able to make an obviously-observable change to the obligatory blinking-LED demo code to verify that it was reprogramming the chip, and then use the debugger to set breakpoints, etc.

BloodyCactus · « **Reply #57 on:** June 24, 2012, 03:21:00 am »

I have mplabx 1.20, i get some status of the chip,

but looking at the project properties, all the little red lights are unsupported programmers. according to mplabx1.2 I'm unsupported, best thing to do is get icd3/pickit3/real ice. Is your startet kit listed with a green light or red light?

baljemmett · « **Reply #58 on:** June 24, 2012, 12:14:33 pm »

Quote from: BloodyCactus on June 24, 2012, 03:21:00 am

but looking at the project properties, all the little red lights are unsupported programmers. according to mplabx1.2 I'm unsupported, best thing to do is get icd3/pickit3/real ice. Is your startet kit listed with a green light or red light?

Uhm, I think it's red, but I have very poor colour vision so don't hold me to it:

It definitely works though! Do you get an error when you try and program a device? I notice your 'device:' setting is 'PIC32MX250F128', whereas my board came with a PIC32MX250F128B installed -- not sure if the B is just hidden by the width of the control or if you might need to change that to match...

BloodyCactus · « **Reply #59 on:** June 25, 2012, 01:04:19 am »

been looking over the microstickii some more.. its supposed to be breadboard friendly, comes with the headers to drop it on, sweet... except the power pins 13 + 28 (vdd/avdd) are not hooked up

so you cant power it. I see a GND + VDD hole in the center of the board but the info sheet does not say if they are hooked up at all. I guess I'll cut up a usb cable to leave the mini connector and tap power directly via the two power lines in it...

does anyone know what the slideswitch does?

baljemmett · « **Reply #60 on:** June 25, 2012, 01:22:11 am »

Quote from: BloodyCactus on June 25, 2012, 01:04:19 am

does anyone know what the slideswitch does?

I believe it switches between the two sets of programming pins, in case your design needs to use one particular set for other purposes.

T4P · « **Reply #61 on:** June 25, 2012, 04:05:13 am »

*oops
And as for powering options ... it was designed to powered via USB

baljemmett · « **Reply #62 on:** June 25, 2012, 11:16:49 am »

Quote from: DaveXRQ on June 25, 2012, 04:05:13 am

Yeah it switches between the DIP and SPDIP ( 0.6" DIP ) sockets

No, it doesn't. It switches between two sets of programming pins available on the supported devices -- PGEC1/PGED1 (pins 4/5) and PGEC3/PGED3 (pins 14/15).

The SPDIP socket is the 0.3" one and seems to be the only one you should plug a device into -- looking at the schematic, the outer rows of pins on the 0.6" spacing do not have the power pins connected, so if you fitted a PDIP device on the bottom I suspect you'd find it wouldn't do anything useful! The marketing blurb indicates they're intended for connecting to breadboards, as BloodyCactus mentioned; makes sense, as otherwise you'd find it rather hard to do any I/O with the thing...

T4P · « **Reply #63 on:** June 25, 2012, 11:46:11 am »

Quote from: baljemmett on June 25, 2012, 11:16:49 am

Quote from: DaveXRQ on June 25, 2012, 04:05:13 am
Yeah it switches between the DIP and SPDIP ( 0.6" DIP ) sockets

No, it doesn't. It switches between two sets of programming pins available on the supported devices -- PGEC1/PGED1 (pins 4/5) and PGEC3/PGED3 (pins 14/15).

Right ... Thanks

MikeK · « **Reply #64 on:** July 03, 2012, 07:27:22 pm »

Anyone have some DSP code examples for this? Microchip only as a "blinky" example on their Microstick II page. Dopes!

caroper · « **Reply #65 on:** July 04, 2012, 07:30:01 am »

Have a look here: http://www.microchip.com/CodeExamplesByFunc.aspx

T4P · « **Reply #66 on:** July 12, 2012, 05:10:21 pm »

WOW microchip took 1 month to reply

Here's what they sent me just only 1 hour ago

Code: [Select]

 
Please accept our aplogies for this delay response.
 
We requested our shipping team to send the missing XXX for the XXXX. I will advise you once the missing pic has been sent out.

gtsili · « **Reply #67 on:** July 13, 2012, 03:37:19 pm »

Even worst:

Quote

Hi George,

We would like to apologize for this delay.

Could you please advise us if you have receieved the missing PIC24F device from the microcstick? If not, please let us know.

Thank you,

T4P · « **Reply #68 on:** July 13, 2012, 05:57:34 pm »

Quote from: gtsili on July 13, 2012, 03:37:19 pm

Even worst:

Quote
Hi George,

We would like to apologize for this delay.

Could you please advise us if you have receieved the missing PIC24F device from the microcstick? If not, please let us know.

Thank you,

gtsili · « **Reply #69 on:** July 20, 2012, 10:05:47 am »

I got mine. The question now is: Will You Marry Me? (see attached photo)

Quote from: gtsili on July 13, 2012, 03:37:19 pm

Even worst:

Quote
Hi George,

We would like to apologize for this delay.

Could you please advise us if you have receieved the missing PIC24F device from the microcstick? If not, please let us know.

Thank you,

T4P · « **Reply #70 on:** July 20, 2012, 06:23:36 pm »

The fedex box they sent is simply massive...
The box with those foam things,
and then the "ring" box,
aka the microchip sample box,
Great, you can fit a Bus Pirate in there!

SeanB · « **Reply #71 on:** July 20, 2012, 06:30:42 pm »

They have been taking packing lessons from HP then.

aluck · « **Reply #72 on:** July 24, 2012, 06:00:21 am »

They either discontinued that discount code, or it is not valid for Russia. ^(

poorchava · « **Reply #73 on:** July 25, 2012, 04:23:23 pm »

I don't mean to be rude or anything, but mid-eastern europe countries including Russia, Ukraine, Lativia, Estony, Poland, etc are considered as poor countries and semiconductor companies usually refuse to ship samples (well, Microchip actually still does provide samples in Poland as the only company left...) suspecting that we want those for resale on ebay or other auction site. And same thing goes for promotion/discount codes. they usualy don't don't include eastern Europe.

aluck · « **Reply #74 on:** July 26, 2012, 01:14:48 am »

Quote from: poorchava on July 25, 2012, 04:23:23 pm

I don't mean to be rude or anything, but mid-eastern europe countries including Russia, Ukraine, Lativia, Estony, Poland, etc are considered as poor countries and semiconductor companies usually refuse to ship samples

Never had any problems with samples, except for:
- Atmel actually send samples through their local representatives in Moscow - and sometimes your samples go into the black hole
- TI ships by FedEx, which is not in good relationships with customs office, and you will have a lot of headache with papers

As for Maxim, NXP, Intersil, AD and other big names - no problems at all.


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