Of Droids and Muin
For a while I have had it in the back of my mind to pick up on a couple of old projects that are kicking around the workshop. One of them was a project based on the Droids MUIN board with XBee modules. The original project which was going to be around rocket telemetry is now not likely to happen, but I decided to have a go at getting the PIC development environment set up for the Muin board. The MUIN (PN.990.005) is based on a 28 pin PIC 18F2520 with 10-Bit A/D, 32k Flash, two 8-Bit ports and a 6-Bit port. Oh, and to keep things interesting I want to use Mac OSX and an ICD2 over USB. So, on to the first challenge, finding a development environment. Sadly Microchip don't as yet appear to provide an environment for operating systems other than W*ndows. A quick search on google came up with a likely contender in piklab. Piklab is free and GPL and appears to have many of the features of MPLab, and it supports ICD2 among others. Installation was greatly eased by using Macports. s...