by Maverick and Brentonr

The Microchip PIC line of microcontrollers is one of the most popular lines of microcontrollers currently available, but most inexpensive and/or freely available programmers lack support for either most of the line other than 16C84/F84 parts or operating systems such as NT and Linux. Fed up with this nonsense and losing access to their commercial programmer, we have created the PIC Incinerator, a smart, serial, freely available programmer. For lack of a better name, the programmer is currently named after what happened to it's first victi.. I mean test part. It's project site is available here.

Maximum Power Point Trackers

by Maverick

I don't have time to write a description right now - so here's the website (unrefined).

Project Quickies

by Maverick

Project Quickies really isn't one project - it's a whole pile of ideas that were initially explored but never brought clear through to completion. Most work to some degree, but these are definitely only for those who know exactly what they're getting into. If you're ready for all that, take a look over here for some unfinished and a few really strange ideas.

PIC-Emu is a partially completed PIC 16F84 emulator Maverick and Hozer began coding with two other guys for a software engineering class. It is a fast, cross-platform PIC emulation core written in C++ with (currently) a Win32 front-end written in Visual C++. Unfortunately, it was never quite completed and is still available today in that unfinished state. Hopefully either someone else will pick it up or we'll get back to it someday.

Go get the documentation (in PDF form)

Go get the source here...
   picemu-0.42 in tarred and gzipped form
   picemu-0.42 in PKZIPped form

Go get the precompiled binaries here...
   picemu-0.42 for Win32
   MSVCP50.DLL (needed to run the binary, if you don't have it)

RDB is a lightweight, differential, 2400-bps serial telemetry bus loosely based around SAE J-1708. It is capable of supporting up to 240 devices at lengths up to several hundred feet currently, and this is expected to expand in the near future. It was used with great success on ISU's 1999 solar car, PrISUm Phoenix, and will probably be used as well on the next car in 2001. Also, many of the projects around here are designed to communicate with it.