Hello World!
Right, enough of cutesy animals! Back to the geeky stuff for a minute!
Today I finally stopped reading electronic component datasheets etc. all the time and actually got around to putting together a bit of hardware to see if I’d actully learnt anything practical. I thought I’d see if I could get the little Microchip Pic microcontrollers to talk to the PC through a serial connection.
And it worked! When it’s turned on it prints out This is bought to you by a MIcrochip Pic and then Hello World! every 2 seconds in a terminal on the PC until I get sick of it and turn it off. Then turn it back on again to make sure it still works!
Oh, and of course it’s got a couple of flashing lights, just to show it’s actually working…
Bec wasn’t that impressed. She tried. But I was a lot more enthusiastic about her toys, I think. I’ll have to do something much more impressive, I suspect, before I’ll get more than a “that’s nice dear”. Oh well. We’ll see.
I’m just relieved it actaully worked! Now to work out something useful for it to do.
your a geek mike, i don’t even know what half this stuff means!