PICkit2 - Tutorials, Experiments
PICkit 2 - Small size USB programmer
from Microchip.
How to use it as a demo device for
USB programming in C language
Java SE SWING JSR-296 Example
How to run background task in
JSR-296 SWING application
with 'busy animation' in the status bar.
Useful addition to Netbeans template.
Computer vision
Vision is the main sense of our robots.
See some Java algorithms we use
Tips-n-Tricks
Some advices about hardware and software tricks
PIC Programming
(firmware)
Assembler program for PIC16F628A
Communication program for sending
commands from cell phone to motors.
Driver for motor controller.
RoboHobbyPlugin
Open Source project on
SourceForge, Java brain
for the robot
In German
Short description of www.RoboHobby.com
in German
In French
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in French
In Spanish
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in Spanish
In Italian
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in Italian
In Russian
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in Russian
www.RoboHobby.com
Software
We prefer to use free and open source software for these robot hobby projects.
We like to use NetBeans IDE and IBM Eclipse IDE. We suppose, that these two IDE
are the best for this moment (2007 year).
Also for producing EXE files from Java code we use GCC/GCJ free compiler.
And SWT gui library from IBM.
Also we work with MPLAD, pretty good IDE for assembler and C for PIC processors.
Recently we did some experiments with hardware and software from Microchip Inc.
We tested PICkit 2 and 44-pin demo board with PIC16F887 processor.
It was interesting to re-program PICkit 2 and use it as a demo board.
We will publish some code in C for this processor (PIC16F887, PIC C compiler).
Also it was interesting to try PIC18F4550 and it's USB capability.
Microchip provide C libs for USB connectivity and it was interesting to test it.
Hope we will publish some simple code examples in C (for Microchip C18 compiler) soon.
Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
Recently we tested some AJAX tools: DOJO and GWT.
We will publish resume about these tools soon.