Very close to working TITO

[jdkmunch]

will look now....

no photo btw

does dcs power amicus?

[TZtech]

Amicus Pinout

The red /Black and Tellow in the middle are for the OLDE so You can leave those for now
No amicus powers DCS - Having issues attaching pics. dont know why I have re Sized them

[jdkmunch]

so the black white and  tx/rx (yellow & green) go to the dcs connector

[TZtech]

Previous PIC made things as clear as mud + Munch pointed ot a error.
This should be better

Machine DCS   Amicus

DCS Pin 2         Gnd
DCS Pin 7        +5V

DCS Pin 5        TX
DCS Pin 9        RX

[jdkmunch]

Just to recap - as I have nothing yet - com analyzer shows no communication

SAS is set to channel 2
machine address is set to channel 1


Is there anything else I must do to enable this dcs -  I have never plugged into this port on the motherboard before - it has always been on the lower board (channel 3)

[jdkmunch]

If I disconnect the slot and reboot the amicus i can see the tx light pulsing as if she is polling looking for the slot - as soon as I hook it up the pulsing stoops

[Foster]

DCS is Channel 2

I would have the amicus board sitting in the machine with the wires going the DCS port as short as possible.

[jdkmunch]

RIP Amicus   

I think I fried her with the wrong pin outs -  as of now - 

totally disconnected from slot - I hook it up to PC and try to program it it says press reset - I do and it just hangs


 

[poppo]

If I disconnect the slot and reboot the amicus i can see the tx light pulsing as if she is polling looking for the slot - as soon as I hook it up the pulsing stoops

Just for the heck of it have you tried swapping TX and RX. Sometimes they are labeled in such a way that they are reversed from what you expect.

[TZtech]

Thats not good

If You go to device manager does it show still show Amicus under the comm ports ?

[jdkmunch]

Yes at least windows stills sees the amicus - from my research it appears that some others have had this problem.  The bootloader on the board could be corrupt.

I've been reading on how to re-flash the bootloader with no luck.

[jdkmunch]

 



Unless someone here on NLG has a PICKIT2 programmer I think I'm toast.


Oh well  -  my backup board will be here in a few days 

[TZtech]

what kind of device programmer do You have? It may support the specific microchip.

[jdkmunch]

http://www.mcumall.com/comersus/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=4312

[jdkmunch]

This board looks similar no? http://www.arduino.cc

If the code was ported to the arduino programming language I wonder if it would work.

[TZtech]

Arduino has become very popular in the last few years and is now the dominant hobbyist platform. The Amicus board copies the arduino's physical layout to accomadate the vast amount of plug in boards (called shields). Arduino uses a microcontroller from Atmel and the developement environment is in C. The nice thing about Arduino is that its open source and there is a tremendous amount of code available for it.

When I started the project I did consider Arduino as its so easily available but as I prefer to code in Basic I chose Amicus. I may port the project at a later stage to Arduino

[jdkmunch]

ThIs is good news. Thank you

I ordered another amicus so I hope to be
Back in business Tuesday.

If anyone has a pickit2 programmer
They may be able to fix my confused chip

[jdkmunch]

TZ what would be the hookups if I plugged it into the serial port on the 3902 like i do with my computer?

I tried TX,RX and a ground but all I got was many 00's on the com analyzer

[TZtech]

You will need a TTL to RS232 converter board like this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAX232-RS232-COM-Serial-to-TTL-Converter-Module-Board-/270912986645?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f13ac1e15.
In my original post there was another member (Kibble) that got his gameking working with the amicus using one of those.

I am still on the lookout for a commercially available board to finalize the project on - The Amicus is a bit expensive. My original goal was >$20 but looks like I wont quite hit that
Waiting for one of these to do some testing on
http://www.ebay.com/itm/PIC28-Prototype-Kit-for-28-Pin-Microcontrollers-18F2550-/320929788052?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ab8e7f094

[vtyler]

i use HI-TECH C for my compiler.
and for a dev board i have used the p14 board similar to this http://www.ebay.com/itm/Assembled-PIC-Microchip-PIC-P28-prototype-board-/160429930264?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255a5e7718 and the stock debug boards that came with my pic kits. one down side to the board in the link is it has an icsp header so you need a different programer of a boot loader to program it. a plus is they have a built in psu that will run off of +7.5 – 15V DC or 6-12V AC and outputs both 3.3v and 5v.
i build the boards for most of my projects tho so then don't stay on the Dev board long

[TZtech]

Thanks Vtyler

I have one of those boards on the way the EBAY.
American members can get it from sparkfun
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/18.

[jdkmunch]

Hopefully max232 will be here tomorrow and
the project can continue!

I ordered it Sunday from CA so hopefully
it will make its way to the east coast tomorrow

[jdkmunch]

Just got the maxx232 ttl to rs232 adapter

How does this fit in between the amicus and the slot?

[vtyler]

the 3 pins on the bottem look like your signal pins you have to put a jumper wire between them and the tx rx and gnd on the amicus. i dont know the pinout of the amicus so i cant help much further.

[jdkmunch]

I wonder if I can power the max with the
Amicus