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Re: Identifying bad/missing battery.

> ... add a transitor whith the base connected to a GPIO port and put the voltage divider on the colector side... As it happens, I am just finishing a battery state-of-charg...

Re: Re: Keeping track of date and time   [2 Articles]

Hello fellows I'm still trying to choose the best MAXIM's RTC for my application... But in their site: http://para.maxim-ic.com/en/index.mvp?tree=timers One can see that they ...

Daily Programmer   [2 Articles]

Hello, I like to build a programmer to control 8 valves 24 V with the BasicX. The idea is to start the opening of the first valve at a set time of the day, open it for a certai...

Re: Hi, Newbie Questions about the BasicX chip

> ... 1. Once you have programmed the chip can you fairly easily pull it off the development board and plug it onto a breadboard for its final application ? Sure. It's us...

BX24 hangs on a simple(?) sub call   [3 Articles]

Hello All, I'm new to hardware related programming but have some basic experience with programming in general. I am writing an interface to control an Audio ADC chip (TI's PCM42...

Variable Conversion BX-24   [5 Articles]

Hello Everybody, In my program top read a current, I have declared the following: Dim I1 as Single Dim V1Max as Single And them I do something like that: I1=V1Max / 0....

Send Text to an LCD TV   [7 Articles]

Hi there im new on this world, so im sorry if im saying something wrong or senseless. I have 2 sensors, one is getting the moistness and the other is getting the temperature, a...

How do I set the date and time of the BasicX-24 RTC?

I just recieved my BasicX-24 development kit and am having some problems setting the RTC. I've loaded the serial 2x16 LCD demo and it works great! The problem I've having is ...

RE: Re: Voltage Divider   [3 Articles]

Tom, As you might have seen from my other message I'm trying to implement the temperature controller now. I have the two 4.7K resistors for my voltage divider. This might b...

RE: Re: BX24 to PC - Extra character   [4 Articles]

Tom, =20 I tried that and that is where it is set now. Actually I'm getting two extra characters ENQ and 255. To "fix" it for now I just filter the buffer thru a non-alpanume...

Re: Re: Reading voltage higher than 5V

There are many ways to skin a cat. Your idea is like the tri state buffer only in the analog world. Have you had any problems with intermittent lock up of the stamp? I used the BX...

I2C on BasicX Development Station.

Hi, Has anyone been able to implement I2C comms on the BasicX Development station? I'm trying to get an LCD Screen to work with the board which uses I2C as its communication. ...

RE: Re: Problem with serial   [2 Articles]

What I do is when I request some text from a serial port I know how many characters I will be getting. When I get all the characters in the queue I then go and process them. I ...

Re: Re: Code to count pulses for fuel dispenser   [3 Articles]

I think you will need to use WaitforInterrupt(bxPinRisingEdge) and a variable that is incremented every time a rising edge is found BR David M. ----- Original Messag...

Re: Code to count pulses for fuel dispenser   [3 Articles]

The code to do this is trivial. 2000ppm is only 33pps, which is well within the speed capabilities of the BX24. You should use a keypad or some similar device to allow the cust...

16x1 lcd display only showing 8 characters

I assume this is an easy question. I am new to the BasicX and have tried some simple projects to get started. Now I tried to use one of the example codes listed on the BasicX...

RE: DAC code needed   [3 Articles]

I found the DACPIN and I'm going to try that in a bit but in the mean time I'm trying to interface a 4x20 LCD in 4-bit mode without any luck. Does anyone have any code that is kn...

Bx-24 Remote control cars and a drag race timer

Hello world (sorry had to do that) The last time I used my bx24 was in 2003 I set up a program to read MPH with 2 phototransistors set 10' apart. worked fine we had fun, li...

Wiegand Protocol and BX-24   [3 Articles]

The question is: Is there any direct method that a BX-24 running BasicX can read the Wiegand data stream from a HID 125kHz RFID (radio frequency identification) reader. Fir...

Re: Mircocontroller Starter Kit

> As a starter, what would be a good > microcontroller development kit to purchase with complete software > package including some small test code for me to get start. I ...

Intercept LCD Writes

I am trying to capture data from a handheld device that has a proprietary processor that is writing to a Hitachi HD61603 LCD driver. I need to read the bit streams from 4 data...

BXDS w/BX-01 RAM sandwich and LCD

I have been using the BXDS w/BX-01 alone, but I have the RAM sandwich and LCD. I haven't used them yet, because it seems like I will lose the use of many of the pins of the BX-...

2 X 16 LCD will not show text   [4 Articles]

A new 2 X 16 LCD lights up and seems to accept and process control codes for backlight and cpu reset but every attempt to send normal text fails. I can see the bits arriving a...

User Interface Example Code?

Hello, I recently bought a LCDX. (BasicX, Display, and Keypad all in one) Although my project is going well, I'm finding the user interface part of coding to be quite com...

BasicX for high-school students   [4 Articles]

Hello mates I'm a teacher at a technical high-school. I'd like to develop some small basicX projects with my students I'm looking for keypads, LCDs, and environmental (or other ...

BX-24 & DS-GPM   [3 Articles]

i'm working on a project to try and get a BX-24 to read the registers of a DS-GPM. i found a sample code for the microcontroller to output the data to an LCD but i want to send i...

Has anyone used a Ramtron SPI FRAM?

I'm looking to increase the amount of RAM that my LCDX has so I can receive RS232 messages as large as 4K (Since the BasicX only has 400 bytes of RAM, this is a problem). The ...

Serial LCD problem   [6 Articles]

Hello y'all I've just started with BasicX and so far it's not very hard... However I've been having problems connecting the serial LCD. I have a BX-24 and a development ki...

Tutorial Article on using the BX-24 is being published

A tutorial article I wrote describing how to get started using the BX-24 and other NetMedia devices is appearing in an amateur radio magazine called "CQ Amateur Radio" (March is...

Re: safe dialer/opener

LOL im sure this could done with a simpler set up then that. and basic X or Basic Z would be perfect for the task. with the add of a geared out servo(continus rotation) and an L...

4*4 keypad with 2*16 LCD

hi everyone i face problems in interfacing and connecting 4*4 keypad (RS 335-429) with basicx-24 with 2*16 lcd, as a user interface to my project. i have to submit it soon and i...

BasicX stuff for free: Christmas came early for me !   [2 Articles]

Today, I received a package from UPS, totally unexpected. To my surprise it was stuff from Netmedia. In the box there was: 2 Standard servos Cirrus CS-50 1 Parallel LCD, 2 ...

BasicX stuff for free: Christmas came early for me :D   [2 Articles]

Tonight, I received a package from UPS... It took me a few minutes to understand where this came from: father Chris (mas) As promised, here's what was in my box of goodies: ...

Serial LCD after Custom Characters

Hi everybody, I have the 2x16 Serial LCD from the BasicX website. I just tried making custom characters and displaying them on the screen. It worked but now my screen ...

Please help? LCD+ with Keypad   [9 Articles]

I am completely stuck on a project and have looked everywhere and found nothing. I have a keypad plugged into a LCD+ display which is connected to the BX24. Now I want to let...

Re: I2c

I suggest you to download LCD_I2C.zip file from Files > Datasheets- Appnotes-Examples-Drawings > LCD folder. It has a few sets of I2C Subprograms that can be re-used in any pr...

Datalogging BX24 with LCDx   [2 Articles]

I haven't been on here for quite a while, but I decided to pull the BX24 out and begin a new project. Hi I'm building a project where I want to datalog the voltage input fro...

Re: unable to halt LCDX

Thank you Wim, but no way: I wrote a 12 byte program but I keep getting "unable to halt" message with error codes from 198 to 202. OTOH I retested the PC com line and it i...

GetKeypad and GetKeypadRaw   [4 Articles]

I am using the LCDX board for a camera control project. The documentation describes two routines to read from the keypad. One, GetKeypad, is supposed to return results in the ran...

Re: Re: Saving programs   [3 Articles]

I think I got it. I dont need the modules unless i like to reuse code EX I2c, or code for LCD display. Now if I like to reuse say code for a LCD display for debuging...