Today, being Sunday and all, I had the chance to solder the version 4B PCB which came from JLCPCB a few days ago. This time, it has a black finishing, which was the original design spec. This is so that excess lights from the 4 warm white LEDs will not be unintentionally reflected nor make […]
Category Archives: Microchip PIC
20230716 Replacing The Capacitor
My programmer is on the mend and just like last time, it was giving inconsistent feedback. The programming steps would start with me erasing the data on the microcontroller, check to verify it is really blank before I can program it. The errors crops up when:One, I was verifying if the chip has been erased […]
20230714 PICkit 5 is here!
Well, well. How time flies! More than two decades ago, I was using a PicStart Plus programmer for the PIC microcontrollers. Very quickly, the model was considered as a matured product a decade later. Last year, I was trying to save (unsuccessfully) up for their most current programmer PICkit 4. And just a few days […]
20230713 Razor Crest Main Board v04B part 1
I wanted to call it Version 5 but then, the text was v04B. This board has just a few minor modifications and function-wise, it is the same. Still, I went ahead with this version. THE CHANGES First of all, the board was manufactured in Black, which was the original colour. It came in default green […]
20230528 The Problem with Mature Products
Since a few days ago, the Programmer started to give me problems where it was unable to prep fresh chips. In other words, I could not clear the microcontroller’s memory so that it could be programmed. At first, I thought it was the plug-in programming cable but after using my DIY Programmer adaptor, it was […]
