IR Board Problem

Technical Sensors
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what programmer are you using? (ICD2?)
what software do you use with it?

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Check out the screen shot in my powerpoint slides. Under the interface tab I selected “JDM (2) for serial port” under Interface Type, and then I loaded the ElCheapo_PCB.ini for the definition file. This was via trial and error before I got “success”. Maybe that will help if you didn’t do that.

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I’m using iambujo’s method of a serial dongle connected to the board.

Yes, I saw that and set both of them. Maybe I’ll try again on a different computer. Thanks for your help. Its strange because I can connect, erase, read, verify, etc. I just cannot write the hex file. Perhaps it is the voltage levels.

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The IR PIC hex file has also been posted by FIRST on their Additional Technical resources page
http://www2.usfirst.org/2008comp/Manual/FIRSTIR.HEX

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To anyone with IR board problems that’s coming to the oregon regional, team 2273 (shameless plug) will graciously give you a hand in getting it to work. It’d be a shame for any teams to not get their robot to do at least SOMETHING in hybrid. We have a PicKit2 and the know-how to get your boards up and running.

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Thanks. The files are identical. So that’s not the problem.

I’ll keep fiddling with it and post if I have any success…

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i have the same problem as DarkJedi613
No luck so far.

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I got it to work!

The things I changed (note I don’t know if all these are necessary):

Devices Tab:
Choose PIC16F87

Options Tab:
Provided the MPLAB devices directory (you really only need one file - “PIC16F87.dev” and it was asking for a 16F716 algorithm, but also providing PIC16F716 didnt help).

Interface:
Interface type: JDM (2) for serial port
Custom interface definition file: ElCheapo_PCB.ini

And that was it! Note: it gave me LOTS of errors, but the device works now (through test it with a remote) so I’m not sure whats up with that. I just tried it again on my laptop (through a USB to serial adaptor – I changed the Option “I/O Port Access Driver” to “no direct access at all, only use win API”). This DID NOT work however – I could not even erase the board. It is possible a true serial port would work however. Good luck!

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