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thank you ben for your reply, this will be quite annoying for me im guessing. do all the old eb boards work with the new programmer with the connectors you sell? or do I have to buy all new boards to go with it?

dazza

sorry forgot to mention I am using v8 of flowcode on windows 7 64bit system.
And Chip Config Settings are attached
dazza

good morning, having a little trouble with programing these devices. Wrong Chip Detected.png when downloading to chip on eboo6 v9 it detects a 16f747 not the subject chips Mloader is the same Mloader Screenshot.png at the end of programing I get a little code protect error File Sending.png am I doin...

hi ben, that worked great, except i have now lost the count below 256, i must be doing something very stupid here.
cheers
Dazza

cheers ben, will give that a go

hi guys, am back again...got everything working up to address 255 on the eeprom, at the moment i am using a 24c32 which has 4096 address's, how do i address above 255 do i need to use a 16 bit pic as i am only using a 8 bit pic at the moment????

thank you kindly for your help jac, much appreciated

cheers
darren

cheers,
it makes sense to me now. would having a mcp23008 on the i2c bus as well change anything, as they need to be addressed on the a0-a2 pins, i think that is what confused me that the eeprom does not get addressed in this way.

cheers
darren

hi jac,
thank you for your reply, my apologies, i was thinking of using a 24lc02 by microchip. this has only one page of 256 bytes.

hi guys, guess what i am a little stuck again, what i am trying to do is write to an external eeprom via i2c, i know i need to start with start i2c addres of 0xa0 data stop what i need to do is write 8 different variables to the eeprom my question is would i start as address 0x00 >>8 for each variab...

@ Martin, would you happen to know of a list of commands and what they do. that was so helpfull it is unbeliveable, took me 5 mins to figure out 0x08 turns it off again though... lol

cheers
Darren

great link sir, much appreciated

dazza

am back again a little less confused this time, while i have a spare minute i thought i would have a play with the lcd, what i am trying to do is to set the start macro for the lcd component to start the lcd with a blinking cursor, my plan was to change the value in the macro for the display control...

now i am very confused, original project has started to work again....very very puzzeled but not worrying about it at the mo as it is working...cheers for advice given so far people, not that i know which bit helped it to work but hey...thanks anyway

hi david, have not got that far yet, i have tried martins idea, of basically checking the port b is working, which it does, so code seems to be going to the chips ok, i have now just tried sending the digital clock demostration from the examples and now i have a few characters as vertical lines and ...

hi martin, looks like /e conection is to gnd which is correct for writing to lcd r/s is at 2.4v and data 4-7 is at 2.4v which would say that nothing is initializing the question is how to fix this, i am guessing that the problem occured yesterday when i changed chips over to program a 12f1840 cheers...

hi guys am really struggling here, i had a piece of code working the other day on a 16f884 chip with the lcd (005) module. i am now getting nothing out onto the lcd display, so i have switched to a 16f88 pic, and sent LCD-fc4 example to the chip, settings on eb006 are osc selected, switch to xtal an...

cheers martin, can now compile to hex with that chip, did wonder what the high and low bit was, next prob is when using ppp3 it does not recognize the chip and a new box pops up asking for id... what a day today is being one problem after the other.. sorry gonna try and pick your brains, am wonderin...

right i did manage to get everything working using the flowcode attached. i changed it from eeprom to using variables, which i believe get stored in ram on the chip, is there anyway to see how much ram is left or is it about making a calculation and adding up....????? Next problem i have got is that...

hi there, i am currently using version 14, if you have looked at the fcf file i uploaded, i must first apologise as it is not the correct file, i wrote alot more code and for some reason it has not saved it....doh

high guys, just written this piece of code, basically it is a counter which is displayed on an lcd display, then when a button is pressed it captures the time it occured to the internal eeprom, i have never used the lcd component or the eeprom component so have a couple of questions, the first being...

totally agree ben, they are already starting to phase out the older dil type ic's and replacing them with surface mount only, a bit of a pain for older designs but much easier to work with in the long run, i am surprised matrix does not do a plug in board for the eb006 programmer to take the new sur...

cheers martin, got fed up of drilling 40 1 mm holes to fit a pic so decided to go to surface mount, so much simpler, that link was perfect, will give that a go tomorrow...fingers crossed...

cheers
Dazza

Good Evening Gentleman, I Have Recently started making my own pcb's and have now decided to use surface mount pic's in doing this i am going to need to make a little board to quickly solder a pic onto so i can wire it into the eb006 programmer to program, which brings me to my question of which pins...

cheers martin, for your post, it seems to let me compile now, have been looking thru the new and old files to try and work out what is different. i see in your new file that there are now 2 lots of the pir1 and pir2 defines. when checking the old file i see that it defines ssp1if, what i was wonderi...