Is there a Propeller hardware connection guide?
Jeff Haas
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I have gone through all the Propeller docs and links in the sticky post at the top of the forum, and I can't seem to find a document that is a "Quick Guide To Hardware Connections for the Propeller".
What I mean is the doc would be a reference guide, organized something like this, where each topic gets a page or so:
1: Connecting Switches
- Description and schematic for hooking up a push-button switch (Does it need a pull-down resistor to GND or...?)
- Short code example for reading the switch input, plus how to debounce
2. Using a relay
3. Reading a Potentiometer
4. Displays - LED and LCD
Etc.
It would cover all the basic components, like the Basic Stamp help does. There is a bit of this on the Microcontroller Kickstarts page, but only for a few parts. Also, when I try to go a lot of the websites or docs linked in the sticky post at the top of this forum, the links are dead, including links to sections of this website. Was the Propeller Cookbook this type of reference? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
I'd like to learn to use the Propeller, but this is making setting up the basics hard. The manual is good for programming the chip itself, but after that, it's tough. Have I missed something?
What I mean is the doc would be a reference guide, organized something like this, where each topic gets a page or so:
1: Connecting Switches
- Description and schematic for hooking up a push-button switch (Does it need a pull-down resistor to GND or...?)
- Short code example for reading the switch input, plus how to debounce
2. Using a relay
3. Reading a Potentiometer
4. Displays - LED and LCD
Etc.
It would cover all the basic components, like the Basic Stamp help does. There is a bit of this on the Microcontroller Kickstarts page, but only for a few parts. Also, when I try to go a lot of the websites or docs linked in the sticky post at the top of this forum, the links are dead, including links to sections of this website. Was the Propeller Cookbook this type of reference? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
I'd like to learn to use the Propeller, but this is making setting up the basics hard. The manual is good for programming the chip itself, but after that, it's tough. Have I missed something?
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Jeff,
I keep a list of links in my "index" (which isn't alphabetized). There's a link to this index in my signature. I think you'll find many of the same links in my index as are listed in the sticky thread but I try keep all the links in my index up to date. Post #3 has links to many Propeller tutorials. I'll check to make sure the Propeller Cookbook is included in the list. If it's not, I'll find it and add it the list as well as to this thread.
Here's the link.
I also added the link to post #3 of my index.
While many of the Propeller resources aren't organized as well as some of us would like, if you can't find something after using Rich's forum search or using ctl+f to search my index, then ask on the forum. There are lots of people willing to help find the information you're looking for.
https://sites.google.com/site/jeffledger/PPDftBv14.zip?attredirects=0
How come it's not a download from Parallax?
I'll see if I can get that back in the stickies.
But this is a great start, and I appreciate the effort to update links and find documents that have wandered off their original web sites.
A better organized update to it has been on my "todo" list for a while now. Pushing it up my list a bit..
From www.parallax.com click on Support and then click Downloads. In the search screen, enter AN0 in the Download Title text box. You'll get a list of all the application notes from AN001 thru to AN019. A couple ( 16 and 17 ) never got published for some reason.
Sandy