[sdiy] PIC basic setup?

[Roman Sowa]

For starters just 3xAA battery pack and that's your whole evaluation kit.
This way PIC will be always safely supplied at 4.5V, and you will not
burn the programmer by grounding problems. If your programmer has
capability to provide circuit power - use it!
Use internal oscillator instead of xtal - no worries about caps, will it
run or not, and you get 2 more pins.
Solder only the chip to strip board and connect required pins to the
programmer. Take your time to doi it properly, those wires will 
eventually break whatever you do, expect a lot of bending while you move 
the board over the table.
Do not add any pots, buttons, LEDs and alike at first, do
it while your firmware grows and needs new devices to control.

Read carefully the datasheet. First time - read it all. When done, read 
the small chapters when needed, about the units you are actually 
programming, like ports, or uarts. This is pretty well written, and 
register bits are described in big letters, full page.

Roman

W dniu 2014-01-08 14:29, Jack Jackson pisze:
> Any good ideas/tutorials for getting a PIC working with just a basic
> setup (pic, xtal, maybe 5v regulator), making it blink an LED,
> respond to a pot, etc?
>
> I got a few PIC16F684 and a programmer with the intention of doing
> Tom Wiltshire's/Electric Druids VCADSR project.
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