Smart-Its Hardware Tutorial

Hardware: Core board with 3 power options (V2.4, 08/2002) Core board for rechargeables (V2.5-a, 08/2002) Mini Core Board (V2.5-m, 08/2002) Software: base station, sensing
Hardware: Sensor board (Sensor Add On V4.0, 06/02) Software: General sensor software (PIC)
Hardware: Load sensing Board (Load-AddOn V4, 07/2002) Software: Load sensing software (PIC)

Smart-Its basic software

New Software (examples and templates) for PIC16F876 core

OLD Version...simple smart-its basestation (reads from RF and prints on serial line)

OLD Version...demonstrates how to read sensors and send results over RF and serial line

Load sensing software

see the sample, currently restructed...

Atelier Results - Demonstrators

using a Smart-It as a wireless joystick - addOn to connect to the game port

Smart-Its software development / Compiler & Programmer

• CCS-PCM PIC C-Compiler (http://www.ccsinfo.com/picc.shtml)
  (Farnell: 791-428)
• Discussion forum at www.pic-c.com
• MPLab (download at www.microchip.com)
• Programmer
  (e.g. simple start with PICStart Plus programmer, Farnell: 704-740)
• Text editor
• general development information (http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~albrecht/ubidev/index.htm)

Serial line terminal software:

• Serialterm - Command line tool for win32- http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~albrecht/sw/terminal/index.html
• reading from serial line using JAVA ComListener.java
• reading from serial line under Linux --> Kristof

All pages contain the eagle board (.brd) and schematic (.sch) files. Also images of the schematic and the boards are provided. Furthermore there is a step-by-step solder/assembly photo tutorial.

To order boards sent the .brd file to your PCB company (e.g. http://www.pcb-pool.com)

for further information please visit may website www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~albrecht or contact me by mail albrecht@comp.lancs.ac.uk