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thanks for your help. i found the mistake, its pretty sad i just forgot to click 'program' after picking pickit 2 so it was just powering my last project :S sorry for the waste of time.

im using my keypad now and ive finished it. a problem ive come across is that when i press the buttons its not matching, i wasnt sure how the connections from the keypad to the board went so i just put lined them up like in the schematic, so i think thats the problem. so if you guys know plz tell :)...

im adding the buttons to the knightrider tutorial and it seems to just be doing the back and forth thing instead of moving with the buttons, anyone know what this could mean?








(Edited - I have moved this post here to give it it's own topic. bitfogav)

lol sorry for doing this but if i wanted to use it without it being powered by pickit, would i put a 5v battery starting at VDD (+) and the negative being at VSS?

hay guys does anyone have a good link explaining arduinos? im hearing them everywhere but dont know what they are!

thanks will it be exactly the same or are there some things i should look for when using them?

in the led matrix tutorial i need a 7442 chip, is there anything else in that title? would it be common enough to be in jaycar?

thanx a bunch that fixed it
sorry for bothering you guys with it

it was 16f648a im pretty sure i did but when you open the asm file do you just open it in file- open , project - open, or does it not matter?

its me again :S im doing the led flasher and im clicking quickbuild and it comes up with 'build failed'. Clean: Deleting intermediary and output files. Clean: Done. Executing: "C:\Program Files\Microchip\MPASM Suite\MPASMWIN.exe" /q /pMCV20USB "tutorial_2_led_flasher.asm" /l"tutorial_2_led_flasher.l...

its fine the files that i needed where hidden so i just had to search for them :S

hay guys ive just set up my pickit 2 stuff and im doing the tutorials that brad has on his website. ive clicked project (in mplab) the project wizard
and im up to the bit where you select your language toolsuite. all the options have a red X next to them and i cant continue. what do i do now??

finally got it time for some experimenting

i would have got it today but my sister was to lazy to get out of bed to sign for it :'(

thank goodness... i ordered my pickit 2 from microchipdirect yesterday so now to wait :S