28. June 2009 by pilot.

The guys at mikroElektronika are very well known in the embedded and educational world for their large but inexpensive and well laid out boards for all PIC products. So I had been waiting quite anxiously for their first PIC32 specific board, and here it is!

The LV32MX Development Board

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15. June 2009 by pilot.

There is a new third party tool available for the PIC32 … it’s a stick!

I love sticks because they are easy to handle, expand, connect. They fit on good old breadboards and wire wrap (perforated) boards.

The guys at eFlightWorks have done a good job of fitting a PIC32MX440F256 in a 56 pin DIL package, exposing the USB port and providing all the basic necessities.

The promise is to port a simple BASIC interpreter and OS (known as StickOS) to the PIC32 so that code development, programming and debugging will be possible without need to use any external (in circuit) debugger/programmer …

I am waiting anxiously for the first release to give it a try…  I will let you know…

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1. June 2009 by pilot.

I am always grateful to readers that report to me typos and/or issues found with the books listings and the CDROM code, but today I want to thank particularly Laurent Debrauwer not only for pointing out an issue with the SD card fileio.c module (as posted on Chapter 15 of the “Exploring the PIC32″ book) but also for isolating the “bug”.  Read the rest of this entry »

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