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| Malibu Senior Member  Joined: 07/07/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 260 |
G'day all, A new member here and a new user of the Micromite series... I thought I'd join up here and learn a few things and hopefully down the track I'll be able to contribute a bit of knowledge. First up, my hat is well and truly off to the designers (and I'm sure there's MANY involved) of these boards! It's a brilliant concept with first class designing. You've gotta be proud of what you have done.  My background is a breakdown electrician in industry for nearly 40 years, but no longer in the trade. I've also dabbled with electronics since I got my first crystal set in a showbag from the Melbourne show in the mid-70's. I dabbled on and off since that time (mostly off, but it's always been good when I get back into it) I've had an idea for a project for a while that started off using a 16F84 (that ran out of room pretty quick!), then proceeded to a 16F628 and on through the range up to an 18F4520 All of them good, but not up to scratch for what I was wanting - so I shelved the idea for a while. A couple of weeks ago I stumbled on Micromite and was instantly hooked with what I was reading because it was so perfect for my ideas! So... I bought an MM+ Explore64. Why stop there?, so I bought an MM LCD Backpack as well! Hey, it's only money, so I got the MM+ Explore 100 just to make sure I was covered...  The first kits arrived last Friday, and I had the MM+64 built and programmed in a couple of hours. Saturday morning and the backpack was built as well. Literally, within 5 minutes of power on, I had it programmed with my version of "Hello World"  Right, so it doesn't do much, but I'm getting there!  Sitting in my cold office this morning and I've already got a few snippets of code ready to re-use as need be; that's testament to the simplicity of how all this works. Anyway, enough babbling from me - I just wanted to poke my nose in... I'm sure I'll be back, hopefully with some new found wisdom! Regards, John John |
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panky Guru  Joined: 02/10/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1116 |
Welcome Malibu (John), It's a great forum and lots of very friendly folks always ready to assist. If you want some ideas on what to do with your new "toys", have a look through the MMBasic libraries - there is lots there! Also, if you have ideas for a project, don't hesitate to float the idea and ask for any tips. panky. ... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it! |
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Geoffg Guru Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3308 |
Welcome to the Micromite world. Looking forward to your completed projects... there is nothing like seeing other people's projects to get the creative juices running. Geoff Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9751 |
Hello and welcome. I should warn you at this point - once you start getting things working in MMBASIC and you see how easy it is to do even complex tasks and GUI controls on the MM+/MMX units, you will likely become addicted just like the rest of us.  The MM is my go-to MCU for just about everything these days. I still use PICAXE too, but when I start to design a new PCB for something, the MM is at the heart of all the boards I work on now. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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plover Guru Joined: 18/04/2013 Location: AustraliaPosts: 306 |
Welcome Malibu, Being one of those who still need to get display panels out of the packing and getting board running. Will you be posting your programs for a fumbler? I still have hope I might get something up and running. Just got a bit snowed under with things I need to do. I am collecting anything that I think I coan understand and get going. p. |
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| Malibu Senior Member Joined: 07/07/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 260 |
Thanks for the welcome! I've always found that these kinds of forums are where the real knowledge is at... usually someone has "done 'it'" before (whatever 'it' may be), or can knock up some lines of code to test out an idea. Learn by example is a great way to get on with things and yeah, I've got the libraries already (slowly dissecting files line-by-line until I find HOW something happens when it does) I've also been over to The Fruit Of The Shed and had a sniff around... I'm not sure that my projects will get anyone's juices running at the moment, but hopefully I can get an MM to do something useful. For now, the most useful code I've done is to trap a screen touch and display the X/Y position of the touch. Simple stuff, but probably one of the most fundamental things on a touch screen. I hear you, Grogster! I already had the realisation that I doubt very much if I'll go back to using a bare 16F series chip because the MM handles everything so well. For some reason, I never used the PICAXE although it always seemed a great idea. I tried the Arduino for a while, but I was never really taken with it - so it looks like the MM for me My first bit of wisdom here goes to you Plover - start building! I'm glad I hooked into it because now the hardware is ready when I have an idea I'm happy to post my snippets, but there's not a real lot I can do at the moment. As a suggestion, maybe the mods could create a sub-forum with code examples for newbies. It could have BARE-BONES code to learn from (for example, a snippet to show RANDOMIZE, or maybe FUNCTION). Just a suggestion Anyway, I better get the day started! John John |
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| panky Guru Joined: 02/10/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1116 |
John, I would highly recommend Geoff's "Getting Started with Micromite" manual which is available on his site. It does exactly what you are thionking about for 'code examples for newbies to MMB'. panky ... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it! |
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