From support2004 at dontronics.com Wed Jun 2 15:47:37 2004 From: support2004 at dontronics.com (Don McKenzie) Date: Wed Jun 2 15:47:44 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] Request for assistance, Message-ID: <40BE2ED9.6CFCBA80@dontronics.com> Hi Gang, in my usual fashion, if there is a request to me for assistance with a commercial project, and I am unable to help, I post it to the group, as there has been many cases now of members completing these projects. Please contact Victor directly if you think you can assist. I had hoped that he would provide more info, and requested that he re-write to post to a group, but this didn't happen, so here it is, as I promised him. Cheers Don... ======================================== Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 11:21:49 +0100 (BST) From: victor enebeli Dear Don, Thanks for your quick response to my enquiry. I'd be very happy to be linked to such a person 9anywhere in the world) that can handle this kind of project. Its actually my first attempt to put an idea which had been in the form of a book into electronics. My best wishes for you. Victor Enebeli ====================================== I am involved in developing cheap educational toys. I wonder if you could help me to manufacture an electronic device that can be used to browse through a simple 3 level menu. The total content will be about the equivalent of 50 pages of a4 in font size 10bpi. The device will be about the size of a gsm handset. example: countries - cities - features; where features will be a set of information. Pls ask for any clarifications Don I'd appreciate help from anywhere in Asia including China. cheers Victor -- Don McKenzie E-Mail Contact Page: http://www.e-dotcom.com/ecp.php?un=Dontronics USB to RS232 Converter that works http://www.dontronics.com/usb_232.html Don's Free Guide To Spam Reduction http://www.e-dotcom.com/spam_exp.php From rmoline at ieee.org Thu Jun 3 03:31:33 2004 From: rmoline at ieee.org (Rob Moline) Date: Thu Jun 3 03:28:00 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] Excess PIC16F877 parts In-Reply-To: <40BE2ED9.6CFCBA80@dontronics.com> References: <40BE2ED9.6CFCBA80@dontronics.com> Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.0.20040603152338.02794d88@pop-server.bigpond.net.au> Hi All, I have about 20 spare PICs, 16F877-20/L (44-pin PLCC) which I bought a few years ago for a now-dead project. Anyone interested in buying some or all of them? For bargain price AUS$5 each (compare with US$10 at Digikey). Reply off-list, Regards, Rob Moline From e.stroud at btopenworld.com Thu Jun 3 12:18:32 2004 From: e.stroud at btopenworld.com (=?iso-8859-1?q?EDWARD=20STROUD?=) Date: Thu Jun 3 12:18:36 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] Excess PIC16F877 parts In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.0.20040603152338.02794d88@pop-server.bigpond.net.au> Message-ID: <20040603161832.96137.qmail@web86302.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Hi I would like to buy them but am in Europe travelling this week - I will be back in UK next Wed and will contact you again then. Regards Edward Stroud Rob Moline wrote: Hi All, I have about 20 spare PICs, 16F877-20/L (44-pin PLCC) which I bought a few years ago for a now-dead project. Anyone interested in buying some or all of them? For bargain price AUS$5 each (compare with US$10 at Digikey). Reply off-list, Regards, Rob Moline _______________________________________________ SimmStick_Group mailing list SimmStick_Group@dontronics.com http://dontronics.com/mailman/listinfo/simmstick_group_dontronics.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://helene.affordablehost.com/pipermail/simmstick_group_dontronics.com/attachments/20040603/3f1e6144/attachment.htm From support2004 at dontronics.com Mon Jun 7 02:52:45 2004 From: support2004 at dontronics.com (Don McKenzie) Date: Mon Jun 7 02:53:00 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] dontronics.com software assistance. Message-ID: <40C410BD.6D4B03E5@dontronics.com> Hi Gang, I have a little software job that I hope someone can help me with. My software man, Alan Boldock is snowed under right now, so we agreed to see if I can get someone else to assist. Alan can give ***limited*** support if you get stuck. Basically, it is changing my shopping cart final order page so that it will accept a new field or two, and convert the countries input to a new country drop down with the entire country list with the ISO standard Country codes. The conversion will mean some extra code for special countries, and other tidying up which shouldn't amount to too much I hope. It is all about Credit Card Fraud Detection. I have come across a site that provides dirt cheap transaction processing for potential fraudulent credit card orders, and reports the results: http://www.maxmind.com/app/ccv2 http://www.maxmind.com/app/ccv_buynow http://www.maxmind.com/app/ccv (The ISO standard Country codes can be found on one of the above pages) I have tested these results and found them to be very effective at this point. All I need to do, is interface my shopping cart to this site in either php, or html code, and report the results back. Perhaps even email them back. This may well depend on how things are looking in the final analysis. So an understanding of html, javascript, and php will be required. I have signed up with them, so you can start playing around straight away. I can provide some real data samples. Payment can be in cash, on official invoice, goods barter, beer, jelly beans, etc., whatever suits. Or, if you are running a similar Internet sales site, perhaps it may be in your interests to be involved. Cheers Don... -- Don McKenzie E-Mail Contact Page: http://www.e-dotcom.com/ecp.php?un=Dontronics USB to RS232 Converter that works http://www.dontronics.com/usb_232.html Don's Free Guide To Spam Reduction http://www.e-dotcom.com/spam_exp.php From simmstick_list at whizkidzit.com Mon Jun 7 05:10:56 2004 From: simmstick_list at whizkidzit.com (Ingmar Meins) Date: Mon Jun 7 05:10:52 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] dontronics.com software assistance. In-Reply-To: <40C410BD.6D4B03E5@dontronics.com> References: <40C410BD.6D4B03E5@dontronics.com> Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20040607190937.02803fe0@203.23.200.55> Hi Don, Let me know if you are stuck I've done some work in all those disciplines (HTML, Javascript and PHP) Cheers, Ingmar At 04:52 PM 7/06/2004, you wrote: >Hi Gang, > >I have a little software job that I hope someone can help me with. >My software man, Alan Boldock is snowed under right now, so we agreed to >see if I can get someone else to assist. >Alan can give ***limited*** support if you get stuck. > >Basically, it is changing my shopping cart final order page so that it >will accept a new field or two, and convert the countries input to a new >country drop down with the entire country list with the ISO standard >Country codes. The conversion will mean some extra code for special >countries, and other tidying up which shouldn't amount to too much I >hope. > >It is all about Credit Card Fraud Detection. > >I have come across a site that provides dirt cheap transaction >processing for potential fraudulent credit card orders, and reports the >results: > >http://www.maxmind.com/app/ccv2 >http://www.maxmind.com/app/ccv_buynow >http://www.maxmind.com/app/ccv > >(The ISO standard Country codes can be found on one of the above pages) > > >I have tested these results and found them to be very effective at this >point. > >All I need to do, is interface my shopping cart to this site in either >php, or html code, and report the results back. Perhaps even email them >back. This may well depend on how things are looking in the final >analysis. > >So an understanding of html, javascript, and php will be required. > >I have signed up with them, so you can start playing around straight >away. I can provide some real data samples. > >Payment can be in cash, on official invoice, goods barter, beer, jelly >beans, etc., whatever suits. >Or, if you are running a similar Internet sales site, perhaps it may be >in your interests to be involved. > >Cheers Don... > > > > >-- >Don McKenzie >E-Mail Contact Page: http://www.e-dotcom.com/ecp.php?un=Dontronics > >USB to RS232 Converter that works http://www.dontronics.com/usb_232.html >Don's Free Guide To Spam Reduction http://www.e-dotcom.com/spam_exp.php > > >_______________________________________________ >SimmStick_Group mailing list >SimmStick_Group@dontronics.com >http://dontronics.com/mailman/listinfo/simmstick_group_dontronics.com From support2004 at dontronics.com Tue Jun 8 00:53:11 2004 From: support2004 at dontronics.com (Don McKenzie) Date: Tue Jun 8 00:53:31 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] dontronics.com software assistance. References: <40C410BD.6D4B03E5@dontronics.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20040607190937.02803fe0@203.23.200.55> Message-ID: <40C54637.48868B3B@dontronics.com> Thanks Gang, I have a couple of interested people now, so I better call off the assistance plea before I get too many and it becomes an additional problem. :-) thanks to everyone. Cheers Don... > At 04:52 PM 7/06/2004, you wrote: > >Hi Gang, > > > >I have a little software job that I hope someone can help me with. > >My software man, Alan Boldock is snowed under right now, so we agreed to > >see if I can get someone else to assist. > >Alan can give ***limited*** support if you get stuck. > > > >Basically, it is changing my shopping cart final order page so that it > >will accept a new field or two, and convert the countries input to a new > >country drop down with the entire country list with the ISO standard > >Country codes. The conversion will mean some extra code for special > >countries, and other tidying up which shouldn't amount to too much I > >hope. > > > >It is all about Credit Card Fraud Detection. > > > >I have come across a site that provides dirt cheap transaction > >processing for potential fraudulent credit card orders, and reports the > >results: > > > >http://www.maxmind.com/app/ccv2 > >http://www.maxmind.com/app/ccv_buynow > >http://www.maxmind.com/app/ccv > > > >(The ISO standard Country codes can be found on one of the above pages) > > > > > >I have tested these results and found them to be very effective at this > >point. > > > >All I need to do, is interface my shopping cart to this site in either > >php, or html code, and report the results back. Perhaps even email them > >back. This may well depend on how things are looking in the final > >analysis. > > > >So an understanding of html, javascript, and php will be required. > > > >I have signed up with them, so you can start playing around straight > >away. I can provide some real data samples. > > > >Payment can be in cash, on official invoice, goods barter, beer, jelly > >beans, etc., whatever suits. > >Or, if you are running a similar Internet sales site, perhaps it may be > >in your interests to be involved. > > > >Cheers Don... > > > > > > > > > >-- > >Don McKenzie > >E-Mail Contact Page: http://www.e-dotcom.com/ecp.php?un=Dontronics > > > >USB to RS232 Converter that works http://www.dontronics.com/usb_232.html > >Don's Free Guide To Spam Reduction http://www.e-dotcom.com/spam_exp.php > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >SimmStick_Group mailing list > >SimmStick_Group@dontronics.com > >http://dontronics.com/mailman/listinfo/simmstick_group_dontronics.com > > _______________________________________________ > SimmStick_Group mailing list > SimmStick_Group@dontronics.com > http://dontronics.com/mailman/listinfo/simmstick_group_dontronics.com -- Don McKenzie E-Mail Contact Page: http://www.e-dotcom.com/ecp.php?un=Dontronics USB to RS232 Converter that works http://www.dontronics.com/usb_232.html Don's Free Guide To Spam Reduction http://www.e-dotcom.com/spam_exp.php From support2004 at dontronics.com Sun Jun 13 06:27:05 2004 From: support2004 at dontronics.com (Don McKenzie) Date: Sun Jun 13 06:27:14 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] Video Motion Detector IC Message-ID: <40CC2BF9.71687189@dontronics.com> 13-Jun-2004 Video Motion Detector IC and other similar devices from Farco Technologies in New Zealand. http://www.dontronics.com/farco.html -- Don McKenzie E-Mail Contact Page: http://www.e-dotcom.com/ecp.php?un=Dontronics USB to RS232 Converter that works http://www.dontronics.com/usb_232.html Don's Free Guide To Spam Reduction http://www.e-dotcom.com/spam_exp.php From david.doty at lmco.com Tue Jun 15 09:49:34 2004 From: david.doty at lmco.com (Doty, David) Date: Tue Jun 15 09:48:29 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] Where Can I Find *Assembled* SimmStick Products? Message-ID: <4C66670E3862A6419DA003F220D07C8403F023BF@emss04m14.us.lmco.com> Hi, All - Not only am I a SimmStick newbie, I'm a software engineer who burns things, people, etc. when he picks up a soldering iron (my wife is the EE in the family). Anyway, I am putting together a proposal here at work for a demonstration of embedded Java programming for industrial control. I am planning on using a JStik as the processor and, therefore, a JSimm / SimmStick backplane and peripherals. For the latter, I'd like to start with the DT203 and DT205, but in the longer term I'd like to have something more impressive. But ... Recall my prowess (or lack thereof) with a soldering iron - I need *assembled* and *tested* I/O. I know about the USBSIMM and the Rogue Robotics Remote I/O and uMMC. Are there other JSimm-compatible SimmStick I/O products I should be considering? Thanks! David Doty Lockheed Martin Corp - IS&S From jay at sprucegrove.com Tue Jun 15 10:05:07 2004 From: jay at sprucegrove.com (D. Jay Newman) Date: Tue Jun 15 10:09:50 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] Where Can I Find *Assembled* SimmStick Products? In-Reply-To: <4C66670E3862A6419DA003F220D07C8403F023BF@emss04m14.us.lmco.com> from "Doty, David" at Jun 15, 2004 09:49:34 AM Message-ID: <200406151405.i5FE57P07119@sprucegrove.com> > Hi, All - > Recall my prowess (or lack thereof) with a soldering iron - I need *assembled* and *tested* I/O. I know about the USBSIMM and the Rogue Robotics Remote I/O and uMMC. Are there other JSimm-compatible SimmStick I/O products I should be considering? This isn't really a product, but I have a board I made for use with the JStik. 24 channels of ADC (12-bit), I2C, com2 brought out to a connector, 8 GPIO pins. All of this on a JSimm compatible bus (using a prototyping house I couldn't get the PCB made to the correct thickness, but there is a converter that can be soldered to this board to make it fit into a SimmStick slot. I just put 30-pin female sockets on my JStik and my I/O board and used a long male header to put them together. There will be an article about this board in an upcoming issue of SERVO magazine. If you want we can talk off-line about this. I could even make you one if you can wait a couple of weeks (I would have to get the boards made). If you wanted, I could sell you the one I have, but mine is a prototype and has some glitches (only 16 ADC, and the GPIO pins are out of order) but it works. [Note: the board is of high quality from Olimex, the mistakes were all mine.] -- D. Jay Newman ! jay@sprucegrove.com ! Xander: Giles, don't make cave-slayer unhappy. http://enerd.ws/robots/ ! From david.doty at lmco.com Fri Jun 18 12:22:09 2004 From: david.doty at lmco.com (Doty, David) Date: Fri Jun 18 12:21:01 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] Where Can I Find *Assembled* SimmStick Products? Message-ID: <4C66670E3862A6419DA003F220D07C8403F31F90@emss04m14.us.lmco.com> Hi, Jay - >>This isn't really a product, but I have a board I made for use >>with the JStik. 24 channels of ADC (12-bit), I2C, com2 brought >>out to a connector, 8 GPIO pins. All of this on a JSimm >>compatible bus (using a prototyping house I couldn't get the >>PCB made to the correct thickness, but there is a converter that >>can be soldered to this board to make it fit into a SimmStick slot. Thanks for the reply and the offer. I am still in the planning and proposing stage here, so I wouldn't need one any time soon (probably not until late this year or early next). You seem to be a good JStik resource (I've been lurking on the JStik group) - I may get back to you with more questions. Thanks again! David David C Doty Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solutions Intelligence Systems Hanover 133 National Business Parkway, Suite 200 Annapolis Junction, MD 20701 From jay at sprucegrove.com Fri Jun 18 12:33:25 2004 From: jay at sprucegrove.com (D. Jay Newman) Date: Fri Jun 18 12:33:27 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] Where Can I Find *Assembled* SimmStick Products? In-Reply-To: <4C66670E3862A6419DA003F220D07C8403F31F90@emss04m14.us.lmco.com> from "Doty, David" at Jun 18, 2004 12:22:09 PM Message-ID: <200011201256.eAKCudH09411@sprucegrove.com> > Hi, Jay - > Thanks for the reply and the offer. I am still in the planning and proposing stage here, so I wouldn't need one any time soon (probably not until late this year or early next). You seem to be a good JStik resource (I've been lurking on the JStik group) - I may get back to you with more questions. OK. The article describing the board should be in a shorly upcoming issue of SERVO magazine. Probably July, but I don't really know. -- D. Jay Newman ! DCX - it takes off and lands base first, jay@sprucegrove.com ! as God and Robert Heinlein intended. http://enerd.ws/robots/ ! From highlander183 at ozemail.com.au Fri Jun 18 21:39:20 2004 From: highlander183 at ozemail.com.au (Darrell Reid) Date: Fri Jun 18 21:36:16 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] unsubscribe Message-ID: <001301c4559e$3e9eba40$fa5e3dcb@studyserver.msft.com> Please unsubscribe me from the group. thanks Darrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://helene.affordablehost.com/pipermail/simmstick_group_dontronics.com/attachments/20040619/836cbbac/attachment.htm From david.doty at lmco.com Tue Jun 22 09:56:57 2004 From: david.doty at lmco.com (Doty, David) Date: Tue Jun 22 09:57:06 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] Any Experience with Muvium uVM with DT106 / DT001? Message-ID: <4C66670E3862A6419DA003F220D07C8403F02402@emss04m14.us.lmco.com> Hi, All - Muvium sells a line of PIC-compatible processor chips that add a Java bytecode interpreter to the PIC processor core. There are varients compatible with the 877, 252, 452, and 8720. Does anyone have experience using one of these chips in a DT106 and a suitable backplane or programmer board (e.g., DT001)? TIA, David From caska at virtualbreadboard.com Tue Jun 22 10:32:23 2004 From: caska at virtualbreadboard.com (James Caska) Date: Tue Jun 22 10:32:49 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] Any Experience with Muvium uVM with DT106 / DT001? In-Reply-To: <4C66670E3862A6419DA003F220D07C8403F02402@emss04m14.us.lmco.com> Message-ID: <000901c45865$bbd90640$f3197ad9@CP301356A> Hi David/All, Just to clarify a few points.. * Muvium is a JIT pre-compiler not a bytecode interpreter, Muvium is typically 20 to 50 times faster than a bytecode interpreter and is comparable to C in-fact. * You cannot use a Dontronics programmer or any of the PIC programming software to program the muvium device. If the dontronics board supports a serial port connection to the UART ( most do ) then you can use the use the serial port to program the bootloader on the uVM device using the software available in the uVMDK or from the ( soon to be available ) Eclipse plugin. * If anyone on this list is attending the Microchip 2004 Masters conference come and say hi ( I am taking a workshop on muvium ) and talk to me about your ideas for SimmSticks. I have thought for a very long time that java wrappers for simmsticks to make the SimmSticks look like java objects is a really good use of object orientated features of java. You can provide a simmstick with a java API - genuine plug and play :-) In fact I have a SimmStick motherboard I designed ( with a protocol for handling bus conflicts ) lying around and various SimmStick interfaces etc. Anyhow lots of potential for java and SimmSticks IMO Cheers, James Caska www.muvium.com uVM - 'Java Bred for Embedded' -----Original Message----- From: SimmStick_Group-bounces@dontronics.com [mailto:SimmStick_Group-bounces@dontronics.com] On Behalf Of Doty, David Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 3:57 PM To: SimmStick_Group@dontronics.com Subject: [SimmStick_Group] Any Experience with Muvium uVM with DT106 / DT001? Hi, All - Muvium sells a line of PIC-compatible processor chips that add a Java bytecode interpreter to the PIC processor core. There are varients compatible with the 877, 252, 452, and 8720. Does anyone have experience using one of these chips in a DT106 and a suitable backplane or programmer board (e.g., DT001)? TIA, David _______________________________________________ SimmStick_Group mailing list SimmStick_Group@dontronics.com http://dontronics.com/mailman/listinfo/simmstick_group_dontronics.com From brill at pappin.ca Tue Jun 22 11:19:55 2004 From: brill at pappin.ca (Brill Pappin) Date: Tue Jun 22 11:19:56 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] Any Experience with Muvium uVM with DT106 / DT001? In-Reply-To: <4C66670E3862A6419DA003F220D07C8403F02402@emss04m14.us.lmco.com> References: <4C66670E3862A6419DA003F220D07C8403F02402@emss04m14.us.lmco.com> Message-ID: <40D84E1B.4090203@pappin.ca> Actually its not an interpreter but a precompiler so your actually getting native code on the PIC AFAIK. As for how well it works, it does work fairly well (though when I tried it they where in beta and I'm sure things have improved). I don't know if James is monitoring this list, but he's the guy that can give details. - Brill Pappin Doty, David wrote: > Hi, All - > Muvium sells a line of PIC-compatible processor chips that add a Java bytecode interpreter to the PIC processor core. There are varients compatible with the 877, 252, 452, and 8720. Does anyone have experience using one of these chips in a DT106 and a suitable backplane or programmer board (e.g., DT001)? > > TIA, > > David > > _______________________________________________ > SimmStick_Group mailing list > SimmStick_Group@dontronics.com > http://dontronics.com/mailman/listinfo/simmstick_group_dontronics.com > -- "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology." - Arthur C Anticlarke From jay at sprucegrove.com Tue Jun 22 14:51:27 2004 From: jay at sprucegrove.com (D. Jay Newman) Date: Tue Jun 22 14:54:35 2004 Subject: [SimmStick_Group] Any Experience with Muvium uVM with DT106 / DT001? In-Reply-To: <4C66670E3862A6419DA003F220D07C8403F02402@emss04m14.us.lmco.com> from "Doty, David" at Jun 22, 2004 09:56:57 AM Message-ID: <200406221851.i5MIpRP01873@sprucegrove.com> > Muvium sells a line of PIC-compatible processor chips that add a Java bytecode interpreter to the PIC processor core. There are varients compatible with the 877, 252, 452, and 8720. Does anyone have experience using one of these chips in a DT106 and a suitable backplane or programmer board (e.g., DT001)? The uVM 452 should fit on any 40 pin PIC socket. It's based on, of course, a PIC 18F452, so you should compare the data sheets. It is programmed through the serial port. -- D. Jay Newman ! DCX - it takes off and lands base first, jay@sprucegrove.com ! as God and Robert Heinlein intended. http://enerd.ws/robots/ !