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WhiteWizzard
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Posted: 03:01am 27 Apr 2014

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All,

If anyone finds any issues with the released version of the software / hardware / manual / website can I propose that we get them all in one place to make it easier for Geoff to address.

A couple of us have already seen the '-6.5 means 6hours 30 seconds' error on the web (should be minutes).

Here is another that hasn't yet been picked up:

On page 20 of the manual (regarding Keypad implementation) the example code has parameters that show r1 (i.e row 1) is connected to pin 1 of the PIC (r1, r2, r3, r4, c1, c2, c3 use 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10).

However, pin 1 is MCLR on 28pin MicroMite so not advisable to use!

If anyone has a better proposal to gather any errors then please post here so we can collectively continue to support Geoff in the easiest way possible.

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WW

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WhiteWizzard
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Posted: 03:08am 27 Apr 2014

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. . . . continuing the above error, I forgot to mention that also pin 8 shouldn't be used either as this is a 0V power connection for the 28pin PIC.

Oohps . . .

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robert.rozee
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Posted: 04:02am 27 Apr 2014

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diagram on pg 4 showing the programming connections, pin 5 of the ICSP connector is labelled PCC instead of PGC. the ICSP connector on the 44-pin version of the diagram is similarly labelled.

rob :-)Edited by robert.rozee 2014-04-28

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Posted: 05:11pm 27 Apr 2014

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Thanks folks. I have made the corrections.

I assume that with the KEYPAD command I was thinking of the 44-pin chip. But regardless, I might as well pick pin numbers that are valid to both.

BTW, I have discovered two small bugs in the final version:
- The RND() function returns a number between 0 and 1. It should return a number between 0 and 0.999999
- An error is thrown when the LENGTH keyword is used when defining a string array using the LOCAL command/keyword.

Neither of these are sufficiently serious to warrant a new release but they will be fixed eventually.

GeoffEdited by Geoffg 2014-04-29

Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net

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