I’ve got a little problem with uploading the SID-app.
I’ve got a PIC18F4685 with MIOS 1.9d , and a Core-module from Smash.
If I power it on, it boots up, the Display (in 4-bit-mode due to the CAN connection with the slave, who is not connected at this moment.) shows first the MIOS-version, and then “Ready.”
everything is how it should be.
If I connect it to the PC and power it up, I don’t get any upload-requests. Neither Midi-OX nor mios-studio recieves anything.
I think I didn’t swap the MIDI-connections and/or their polarity.
(btw.: I think I discovered a small error in the CoreV3-pdf: the Midi-out-port has 2 “M-” there.)
Any suggestions to solve this problem?
thx,
matthias
_ EDIT: _
I solved this problem, but discovered another problem.
Have you tested the core module before or is it new? I’m guessing you have a known-good PIC there that you could try in that core, but I’d check the voltages first… Prhaps you could try that PIC (the 4685) in the known-good core too?
Yeh, well I’m a “guru” and you’ve helped me before, so STFU and puff up your chest, tweaker
Serious man, I think you get to be a guru at 1000 posts or something, and I can assure you that I was no guru when I had that postcount. Don’t take too much notice of the label, all it really is, is a marker of how much you chat.
Besides… You will be surprised how much you have learned. In 500 posts or so, you’ll be a guru, and half of your guru-ness will be made up of what you know right now.
You’re sixteen and have built and troubleshot a MIDIbox core. That’s pretty tweaky to me. At sixteen I was having trouble building fuzz boxes that worked first time, (and we’re talking about 15 parts here!).
One day soon I’m going to build a radio kit - and make it work! From my first attempt at 11 to the last time I tried (18), I never ever got a radio kit to receive much of anything.
One definition of an expert is “a person who has made all the possible mistakes in a narrow field”.
Some of the most important abilities are those that relate to finding and fixing your mistakes. Electronics offers a huge range of ways to make a technical fool of yourself. Add music,and you’ve got the ability to do it in front of an audience…
Perhaps we could do a thread. Believe me, putting one resistor in wrong doesn’t come close to an early repair job of mine, where I replaced 4 very expensive power transistors in a hifi amp … the wrong way round, because I’d taken them all out when I tested them. I lost 2 weeks pocket money in 10 seconds. That was an early lesson to keep notes, and that N P N is collector P ositive, P N P is collector N egative
