Bascom Butterfly is flying... (workin-it) | AVRclub

Hey Gang... Sorry about being gone for awhile... I wanted to thank both Graham Davies and John Scott for there time and advice to get me booted... Thanks Boys..!!! ( the old man could use the help) Anyway, So far I think we can safly say that using the bata version of Bascom (....7.5) does indeed get you the needed files to get a test program going. John Scott also explaned that you can take the compiled bascom output HEX file and load that into Butterfly chip using the AVR Studio 4 package and the "factory" loader that comes programed into in. ( Ya baby !!! Way Cool ) This is the first step to make the Butterfly Board into sort of "human interface" part of an over-all project. The first thing I want to try is geting an IrDa complient SPI driven interface built on so you could use the butterfly to trsnsfer data to and from various devices while storing it on the Butterflies onboard memory chip. One thing I did notice about the LIB file after doing some reading of the Help file. That is.. (newbies take note) (hey, that includes me too).. hehe... :) The LIB file functions that are used actuly use the stardard internal Bascom "LCD" function, but since you elect to load the "LCD_BUTTERFLY.LIB" file at the start of your test program, wich is M169_LCD.BAS, when using the LCD function, control is actually pased to the replacement functions. WOW... This went compleatly over my head for about 2 hours.!!! (i have now recovered from the mellon crash)... So.. Going on, I guess i need to do some more checking around, but i don't think there will be a current function to work the Joystick/Tophat/Enter Switch so we might have to get something going from scratch.. To that end I dit try some simple test routines using Bascom. The first one I tried was a simple Loop to read the "Bitlevel" of the Center (enter) Button whch is connected to PB4. The Bascom code works for me...: '------------------------- tst Dim S As String * 6 Do Sound Portb.5 , 100 , 100 'Hi BEEP Sound Portb.5 , 100 , 125 'Lo BEEP Waitms 100 If Pinb.4 = 1 Then S = "OPEN" Else S = "CLOSED" 'tst bit LCD S Loop End '------------------------- So far, So good I thought but tring the same thing on the other control lines does NOT work. I have not checked on this but I'll bet that the DDR's ant PORT's are probally not left setup corectly to make the pin reads register correctly. I think the reasion PB4 works is because the bootloader uses it to pop-start the user program. I will get back to fussin with the insect board soon and try to help all who want to put this cheap board to good use..!!! What a steal-deal... Thanks for reading all this "newbie bable" jea (zonker)

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Bascom Butterfly is flying... (workin-it) - John Allen - Nov 13 17:45:00 2004