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My 16F88 PICs arrived today. I managed to load in the sample LCD program as suggested by medelec35.
While the program did compile and load, It runs VERY VERY slow. (one minute for the first line to appear on the LCD)
The count up and down is very erratic. Anything I can do to speed it up?

I managed to write a small program to count up or down depending on the push button that is pressed. The delay for de-bouncing, is this more for when running the simulation than actual practice? I already have a small delay in the program so that the count does not go crazy when clicking the button ...

I decided to go get a couple of the 16F88 chips. ($2.60 at Allied) They are pin comparable with the 16F1827 and what I have perf boarded up so far. Will give me something that is usable with the demo version of flowcode to play with. It may even be fast enough to use for this project. I have been re...

The switches are going in on RA4 so far. Haven't physically hooked them up yet. Plan is to use a pull down on the pin and use 3 different value resistors for an analog input. I also have RB6 and RB7 as left over pins so I may just hook one switch to each pin. Can keep it all digital that way. It is ...

I have figured out how to use the PICKIT3 with the flowcode demo. I have already built the basic circuit on perf board. I was planning on doing things in steps. 1) Get the LCD to just display some text. 2) Get the LCD to display which one of the 3 push buttons was pressed. (Stop, Go, Zero) 3) Get th...

I appreciate the reply's and help. Programming a PIC is all new to me. The Flow-code looks like it would take some of the hassle of programming the final project. Eventually this will be a antenna rotor control. With 2 Quad rotary encoders, 2 outputs to relays, 3 input switches on one pin, and the L...

I just got my hands on the Flowcode 4.0 Demo, Since I can not post into that forum I guess I will ask here. Is there a place to download newer FCD files? I am new to pic programming and first tried copying and renaming one of the files but it did not show up in the list. Not to mention that I would ...