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Thank you for visiting my channel and taking interest in this about page. The contents of my videos are meant to be easy to understand so anyone can engage and try to learn things about electronics, retro computers, programming, 3D printing and other DIY stuff.
Technology and computers play a large role in my life and in my free time I find myself doing various projects. I decided to document and create videos on what I do and share them, so other people can benefit from it.
Check out my second TH-cam channel for some behind-the-scenes footage and live feeds: www.youtube.com/@ezTesting
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Technology and computers play a large role in my life and in my free time I find myself doing various projects. I decided to document and create videos on what I do and share them, so other people can benefit from it.
Check out my second TH-cam channel for some behind-the-scenes footage and live feeds: www.youtube.com/@ezTesting
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How to program a PIC microchip?
Is it worth to learn PIC programming in 2023? I think so. There are numerous fun projects that you can do with it. Ranging from Blinking LED project to Retro Hardware mods. This video shows you how to start programming in MPLAB X and XC8 compilers. This project uses a K-150 Programmer to upload the HEX file onto the PIC chip.
Links in the video
PIC16F628 product page
www.microchip.com/en-us/product/pic16f628a
PIC16F628 datasheet
ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/40044G.pdf
Download MPLAB X
www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mplab-x-ide#tabs
Download XC8 compiler
www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mplab-xc-compilers/downloads-documentation#XC8
PIC Projects
circuitdigest.com/pic-microcontroller-projects
atariamiga.free.fr/sourisps2_e.php
github.com/search?q=pic16f&type=repositories
K-150 PIC Programmer software
www.kitsrus.com/pic.html
K-150 PIC Programmer USB Windows Drivers
buyhere22.com/components/k150/
Music used by Jason Shaw:
audionautix.com/about-jason.php
Links in the video
PIC16F628 product page
www.microchip.com/en-us/product/pic16f628a
PIC16F628 datasheet
ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/40044G.pdf
Download MPLAB X
www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mplab-x-ide#tabs
Download XC8 compiler
www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mplab-xc-compilers/downloads-documentation#XC8
PIC Projects
circuitdigest.com/pic-microcontroller-projects
atariamiga.free.fr/sourisps2_e.php
github.com/search?q=pic16f&type=repositories
K-150 PIC Programmer software
www.kitsrus.com/pic.html
K-150 PIC Programmer USB Windows Drivers
buyhere22.com/components/k150/
Music used by Jason Shaw:
audionautix.com/about-jason.php
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hello. thank you very much. how can I contact you. I'm from Mongolia
Thank you
more videos like this Sir please. hopefully you also make a video of how to build a giant diy led wall composed of a ws2812b 16x16 panel with the length of 12 panels and the width of 20 panels total of 61,440 LEDs. 🤩
Wow! Brings back lots of memories with my Mac Plus! Thanks!
The tape unit was a huge step back from its predecessor, the P2000T, which had superfast fully automatic mini-tapes.
I saw a picture of Gary Kasparov using one of these, so naturally I had to find out more about this model. I never knew much about this part of the ST range. They look pretty good for their time. Thanks for the video!
I want to see Mac Attack, including its intro. 🥺
Awesome work
Awesome computer!!!!
How to read code from pic16f628a?
So good and so clear! Thnks
Hey, the link to the website where you can download the K-150 PIC Programmer USB Windows Drivers software seems not to work, is there another website?
I wouldn't buy a non-working ZX-81 because the most likely source of the problem is the ULA and then good luck getting a replacement.
True. They are hard to find, however I am still thinking of a project where I build an easy to make replacement.
@@ezContents FPGA replacements for the SID chip and the video chip in the C64 have been created. Perhaps someone will create an FPGA based replacement for the ULA.
with your mod does the internal drive operate at the same time as the external drive? Doing the D0 D1 flip does not seem to stop the motor signals going to both when using the external drive as the boot drive.
Does it? I haven't noticed.. It's technically not my mod. It's been around for decades.
Thank you very much for this video. I have an issue with this panel. Top half of the board displays only green and blue. It is displaying red. However it works sometimes. I am using esp32 with GpxMatrix library. Exept for the red not showing clearly every thing works nicely. On checking I found the one of wires in the strip connector was open. I changed it. It worked for sometime randomly. Even the orange color I had given shows as green ( because of red not working properly). Can you tell which component on the board could be checked or why this is happening ? . Dc voltage is 5.2 volt from a 2 amp supply. Does the A, B,C,D pins has got anything to do with lower half and upper half ? Lowever half works nicely showing all the defined colors. Thank you
It's been a while when I did this project. You could try to dig into the schematics (link in the description) and see where the signal flow drives the red LEDs on the bottom half. I can't say without diving into it back myself.
@@ezContents Thank you for responding. I corrected the issue. The pin wire connected to R1 was faulty with loose contact (never expected it ).
I miss my Mega ST2. The motherboard on mine looked like the one you picked up for a spare. Where the RAM chips are is an outline of where more chips could go. I soldered in sockets on all of mine and added more RAM and turned mine into a Mega ST4. I never had a color monitor for it. I got the monochrome monitor as I used mine for Desktop Publishing with PageStream.
Nice work! I though about combining all of the RAM chips from both boards. But desoldering them is hell, so I did not continue.
@@ezContents yeah, back when I did mine, those ram chips were easy to get.
I used Arduino Mega (with direct connection pins) to tester PLA. Using TinyGo language. Very simple. Thanks.
Very cool!
thank you 👍 subbed
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Great Video! I was looking at something to explain the RAM in my C64. Its been having RAM issues. Thanks!
Can i used rt809h for that
I love this. It's very similar to the way an old school CRT would scan, these are perfect for making retro game screens with. The black spacees in between the pixels. Almost simulates CRT perfectly. It would be my dream to see some sort of driver that could arrange an analog signal into an LED matrix cleanly and without lag, but what we have now will work
That's true. This might work as some kind of a CRT replacement. 🙂
I made it it is working fine How to increase time font size
I.must have owned one of these as my hard drive back in the day wasnt as large as the Megafile units. Sad that i don't recognise it. I wirked all summer at a Texas Homecare DIY store to afford the drive, needed because compiling Pascal code required swapping floppies at every rewrite of the code :)
Powermac G3 doesnt have a superdrive
why are you connecting from hub75 input to output ? isnt output to daisy chain to another display ????
In this way all the shift registers that are responsible for all the colours can be programmed by just one output of the ESP microcontroller.
Yes, Windows 7 is outdated, but it was and STILL is the best windows yet, in my opinion. Excellent video.
Thanks. Yes, I agree. It was / is my favourite Windows version.
@@ezContents yes. 7 is light and require short time for booting.
Good information. How can I make a code for setting an output by a pushbutton as a input...? Do you have any tutorial for this?
Hi, I'm using epm7032slc44-10 for my custom made 6502(TTL) cpu computer, but my CPLD has 3.3 V on output, do you maybe know a way to output on this chip 5v?
You could try using a level shifter.
Please show software part as well
One of these days. 🙂
you can test the sram with your eeprom programmer 😀
Thanks. I was making it too complicated, with the Pico and 3.3V to 5V conversions. Although I think that the problem might have been with the in/out pins, which had 2 functions.
Informative and clear explanation
😮
What is the Part Number of the USB Connector for the Bridge?
Thank you , ithink this is the best video ever for explaining RGB modules 😊😊👏👏👏👏💪
Thanks. I appreciate it. 😊
Nice fixes there! That's quite a modified unit.
Vertical bar
Led panels showing vertical bar
Thank you! For great project
Just a comment about the UK mains plug fuse. It's not there because we have 30A ring circuits - each circuit has a breaker - but to protect the device mains cable in case of a short inside the powered device. Many device cables, including in the EU, will melt and/or catch fire, or at least get very hot at currents allowed by the circuit breaker. The fuse should be rated appropriately for the device in question, regardless of the current rating of the supply circuit to which it is connected.
Thank you for clearing that up.
ah yes, Dutch macos
The successor video grabber, which still had this housing in the operating instructions, was completely unusable: th-cam.com/video/oRJzF2FXpHY/w-d-xo.html
Too bad. Mine worked acceptability fine.
@@ezContentsBut it is at least very unusual for a successor to be worse, even though the main aim was to update to Windows 10.
True. You would expect improvement...
@@ezContentsToday I ordered the Logilink VG0030 video grabber again, which should correspond to the EasyCap video grabber. If you want to rate products extremely negatively, you should do a cross-check. Since the video test was not passed at the time, I didn't even bother with the fact that the audio input should be mono according to ThriftyAV.
I still use my veteran Veleman P8048 board, but I connect a a Pikcit 3 on the ICSP header. right now it has a 4 MHz crystal and a PIC16F84A mcu. The part around the serial port is no longer in use.
That's a nice solution. Maybe I will try that one out. Thanks.
RA4 GPIO of PortA is an open drain port so, can LED's be interfaced to other PortA pins (which are stated as CMOS) in current sink or current source methods? Also can an Switch be interfaced to RA4 with an 10k resistor pulled up to Vcc and switch connected to ground to read an active low signal when the switch is pressed?
On that pin you have GND or a floating state/high impedance. So you will need a pull up resistor for it to work.
I have K150 programmer too. But as you said that the K150 chip supports only the operating system of Windows 7 SP3 and below. Then i quit trying after that. I didn't check for years. We need a new programmer 😁
I could be mistaken, but I thought that I saw the Prolific drivers for Windows 10 somewhere.
Pl2303 driver works in Windows 11 too. I have few devices based in it, no issues
You cauld sniff the web for a Pickit 2 if you're only prgramming PIC mcu. They work in both Linux (with manditory faul language) and even Win 11 Nte win software are free for the PK2.
@@magicsmokeescapist4069 Thanks, I'll try that 👍
Great to see people supporting old hardware with replacement options.
The diagnostic cartrige would show you which RAM chip failed/MMU - over serial connection. You were lucky!
Yes... That was actually something I wanted to try. Too bad that I got lucky. 🙂
@@ezContents Yeah, based on experience - first thing to test out with any ST is the serial port, right after checking voltages! Cheers!
@ezContents Your project is Great!!! I did build and it works great!!! Please! Could anybody help me? Let me know if Is possible to use this device to test 4116 ones? I know how to generate -5v, +5v and +12v to power that chip. There is a way to use your device to test 4116 too? Very thanks once more!
nice video. so this is only a retro thing right, they dont get produced anymore?
Thanks. No, I don't think that they are produced anymore.
Thanks for the video.