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Programming PICs in BASIC
This was my first attempt at writing a Mini-Book. I used the Sample Version of PICBASIC Pro which is limited to 31 commands to show how easy it is to get started programming PICs in BASIC. The book has been quite popular. It's become the framework for future Mini-Books on PBP3.
The books covers getting started by showing how to set everything up and get your first LED to flash. Then it takes you through fun projects that show how to monitor switches, read analog sensors such as Light and Vibration sensors. It covers how to make sound through a piezo speaker. Its written as a Volume 1 and uses an 8-pin PIC12F683. My plan was to create more books in the series but when the PBP3 Student edition was released which is a low cost PICBASIC compiler without a 31 command limit I decided to start over and write a new series of Mini-Books similar to this one but based on PBP3. Look for those sometime in 2013.
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The books covers getting started by showing how to set everything up and get your first LED to flash. Then it takes you through fun projects that show how to monitor switches, read analog sensors such as Light and Vibration sensors. It covers how to make sound through a piezo speaker. Its written as a Volume 1 and uses an 8-pin PIC12F683. My plan was to create more books in the series but when the PBP3 Student edition was released which is a low cost PICBASIC compiler without a 31 command limit I decided to start over and write a new series of Mini-Books similar to this one but based on PBP3. Look for those sometime in 2013.
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Programming PIC Microcontrollers with PICBASIC
This was my first published book through Harry Helms' LLH Publishing (which was bought by Elsevier Science before the book was published). It was an instant success and was a very popular book.
The book covers all kinds of topics and includes 15 projects. From flash an LED to creating a servo driven robot with obstacle detection. There weren't many books like this when I wrote it. Most technical books were about algorithms and technical jargon. I wanted a book readers could understand and projects that would be fun and useful. Now there are many books like this so maybe I helped start the Maker revolution.
The book covers both the PICBASIC compiler and the PICBASIC Pro compiler. Both have now gone away and have been replaced with the PBP3 compiler (PICBASIC PRO 3). I am working on books for that compiler which should launch a whole series of Mini Books (6x9, 135 pages or less) on the topic.
Download the support files for this book here.
The book covers all kinds of topics and includes 15 projects. From flash an LED to creating a servo driven robot with obstacle detection. There weren't many books like this when I wrote it. Most technical books were about algorithms and technical jargon. I wanted a book readers could understand and projects that would be fun and useful. Now there are many books like this so maybe I helped start the Maker revolution.
The book covers both the PICBASIC compiler and the PICBASIC Pro compiler. Both have now gone away and have been replaced with the PBP3 compiler (PICBASIC PRO 3). I am working on books for that compiler which should launch a whole series of Mini Books (6x9, 135 pages or less) on the topic.
Download the support files for this book here.
Programming the BASIC Atom Microcontroller
This was my first self-published book and I still thinks its one of my better project books. The book is based on the Basic Atom which was a competitor to the Basic Stamp but Atom was so much more powerful. It was based on the PIC16F876 Microcontroller with the Basic Atom Interpreter/bootloader pre-programmed in.
This is the only book I know of written on the Basic Atom.
Basic Micro moved on the another version of the Basic Atom chip but this book still applies somewhat. You can find out more about the Basic Atom at the BasicMicro.com website.
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This is the only book I know of written on the Basic Atom.
Basic Micro moved on the another version of the Basic Atom chip but this book still applies somewhat. You can find out more about the Basic Atom at the BasicMicro.com website.
Download the support files for this book here.