TheBackShed.com

Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : Building library part for E28-Explore

Author

Message

plover

Guru

Joined: 18/04/2013
Location: Australia
Posts: 306

Posted: 02:28pm 09 Aug 2018

Copy link to clipboard

Print this post

I am building a library part in DEX for the E28-Explore, due to my poor memory I am adding a fair bit of information into the schematic symbol. The info is from a picture here in TBS but the quality is a bit unclear.

https://www.thebackshed.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10462&PN=1&TPN=1

Does anybody know where the original picture comes from? I would like a sharper picture for my part

Chopperp

Guru

Joined: 03/01/2018
Location: Australia
Posts: 1097

Posted: 02:37pm 09 Aug 2018

Copy link to clipboard

Print this post

Found this. May help.
Try Here Edited by Chopperp 2018-08-11

ChopperP

plover

Guru

Joined: 18/04/2013
Location: Australia
Posts: 306

Posted: 12:07pm 10 Aug 2018

Copy link to clipboard

Print this post

Chopperp
Thank you very much. You are spot on. Though I almost missed out, I thought the post was the same as I had already found but of course it was one of the posts I did not find.

A second glans scrolling down and I spotted the pdf attachment, the print out from pdf file is much clearer which will be helpful when scaling it down.

Chopperp

Guru

Joined: 03/01/2018
Location: Australia
Posts: 1097

Posted: 12:37pm 10 Aug 2018

Copy link to clipboard

Print this post

Glad to help at such a late hour last night

ChopperP

CircuitGizmos

Guru

Joined: 08/09/2011
Location: United States
Posts: 1427

Posted: 03:41pm 10 Aug 2018

Copy link to clipboard

Print this post

I can get it to you as a jpg or gif if that helps.Edited by CircuitGizmos 2018-08-12

Micromites and Maximites! - Beginning Maximite

plover

Guru

Joined: 18/04/2013
Location: Australia
Posts: 306

Posted: 12:30pm 18 Oct 2018

Copy link to clipboard

Print this post

As my brain got a bit frazzled loosing a sim card inside the phone, just before I take the Dremel cutter to the phone I decided to relax with something completely different.

I have a couple of E28 mites here, next to the pc with cable attached. Since this is my ECAD pc running Win 7 Pro I have installed MMEdit, downloaded a few weeks, hmmm perhaps several weeks ago and at the time I made a very quick check, and yes MME connected fine, when I found out what com port it needed.

The E28 has a .bas program on board and it ran fine. I play around with the program a bit and then returned to other tasks again.

Reading a post today about something about moving from the monitor to the Editor and using win 7 pro, I did not remember that problem. I made a quick check but the E28 no longer runs.

Dim ok(28)
For I = 1 To 28
On error skip
SetPin I, DOUT
ok(I) = (MM.Errno=0)
Next I

Do
For I = 1 To 28
If ok(I) Then
Print I;
Pin(I) = 1
Pause 500
Pin(I) = 0
End If
Next I
Print
Loop

My method of trouble shooting is just to "Download and Run current code"

The "Upload Progress" gets real busy, ending with

Clearing...
Micromite_MK2_V5.1 Version V0.0 detected
Error talking to maximite

The 'maximite' I am not sure if that is important?

Connected on com1:38400

When I run linux I seem to remember I would jump onto a terminal but I have not tried the usual terminals I had, but of curiosity I have downloaded the SAGT3K Micromite Console v 0.935. I found this would let me find the com port.

Ahh, I think I have just found something, I was going to say the Console seems to have connected on com1 at 38,400 but I am very unfamiliar with this terminal so if it does not work I am struggling. What I just found was it seems to have connected on com1 but the cursor just blinks (don't know what that means).

Something from the ehter whispered in my ear why do you not try to connect to com4, that is when I see the ">blink" in the window. So when I then send the RUN command the above program does run.

Errrhh, does the program set all digital outputs possible?

Well I must have got the MMEdit "connected" wrongly, I will go back and try and connect via com4.

By the way, I ran the 'list' command and got following in the window

> list
Dim ok(28)
For I = 1 To 28
On error skip
SetPin I, DOUT
ok(I) = (MM.Errno=0)
Next I

Do
For I = 1 To 28
If ok(I) Then
Print I;
Pin(I) = 1
Pause 500
Pin(I) = 0
End If
Next I
Print
Loop
>

As expected, I did ctl-c which after highlighting desired lines, allowed me to copy and paste to forum the above code snippet. I accidentally out of habit did a right click in the terminal window to do the copy. That set the cat amongst the pidgeons and I took cover just in case

. Lots of lines started rolling down the screen, looked like the copied characters were being fed back into the screen??

Ok, time to check out MMEdit again using com4. This time it worked again so it was just the wrong com port, that was a relief.

Is there best way to connect to the mites via MME? I certainly have forgotten, I do remember it can be done the "Connect" Tab but also that I had some fun when working in Linux.

Edited by plover 2018-10-19

TassyJim

Guru

Joined: 07/08/2011
Location: Australia
Posts: 6283

Posted: 10:01pm 18 Oct 2018

Copy link to clipboard

Print this post

MMEdit can remember the COM port you use.
In preferences, if you select "Save config in BAS", the version of MMBasic and the COM port are saved as comments at the start of your BAS file.
This is handy if you have multiple device that use different port numbers. It saves you remembering which one goes where. It is not so useful if your Windows uses different port numbers all the time.
For MMEdit to work best, you need to tell it which version of MMBasic your device is using. I gave up trying to do that automatically.

If you choose to select your com ports manually, MMEdit remembers the last 10 connections so your device is likely to be in the list.
If not, select "new" and find the port.
"Find" will test all ports to see if they exist. This takes time and will list things that are not 'mites as well.
If you have a port such as COM1 on your PC and it never has a 'mite connected, you can add that port to the "excluded serial ports" list. This is not essential, just saves time.

Jim

VK7JH
MMedit

plover

Guru

Joined: 18/04/2013
Location: Australia
Posts: 306

Posted: 11:55am 19 Oct 2018

Copy link to clipboard

Print this post

Thanks for information, that stirred my memories and I hopefully will remember to find this topic when I forget it again. My memory seems very short lived these days if I do not constantly work with a topic.

I believe that I managed to test for panky's problem when moving from chat/edit window and back to MME window. I did get stuck using the ASCII terminal not sure what was going on there at all.

But moving from Chat/Edit/VT to MME I did not seem to have any problem wit 'extras'. I do need to use two clicks to see the blinking caret (window active again).

I am not sure if I even used to be aware of that, as it does not seem to attract any undue attention until extra spaces or characters start popping up.
Edited by plover 2018-10-20

Print this page

To reply to this topic, you need to log in.