PIC microcontroller with GLCD

[macvegard]

stiligt!

[mehsar80]

terrific

[HOUSEOFWISDOM1]

hello im new to the idea of a GLCD could you please tell me how you knew how to program it, i mean how can you put a character and graphic and so on. I am planning on using a PIC16F877. the idea is to create a user interface for an intelligent thermostat.

[njdevil281]

can you buy a project box for that?

[brandonhughes7]

to make it use the sd card the sd card has to be in a formate that the microcontroler can read but aslo the microcontroler has to understand that format as well. and if you whant to play a vidoe or veiw a picture the microcontroler has to be able to understand that format. so to use that SD there with be a lot of programing in you future.

[Webking271]

Look on the devmaster web site for "Software Rendering School" under "Graphics Theory & Implementation" for information on drawing 3D graphics... in summary, you take your 3D world and project it onto a 2D screen using a parallel projection matrix, then you rasterize and shade the triangles using interpolation via digital differential analyzers... it's pretty math-heavy stuff

[Kumbalaa]

Great Project!!

But in spanish languaje is better

[McGuywer]

I made the same line and circle alg. by myself back in early 2000 in 16bit ASM for DOS, without having Internet or knowing about Bresenham's alg. ;inputs: ;[x0y0]=start ;ax=X;bx=Y; line256c: pusha mov cx,1 mov dx,320 or ax,ax jns f1 neg cx neg ax f1:or bx,bx jns f2 neg dx neg bx f2:cmp ax,bx ja f3 xchg ax,bx xchg cx,dx f3:mov si,ax mov bp,ax shr bp,1 mov di,[x0y0] f4:mov byte[es:di],15 add di,cx sub bp,bx jnc f5 add bp,ax add di,dx f5:dec si jnz f4 popa ret x0y0 dw 0

[Kdg86]

Okej! Good for you!

[odessa999]

Nice work, I'm working on a GLCD project too ... thanks for the video

[electron2222]

WOO =O

[dilorenzo42]

hi... what is the name from the program?. can you send me the your email?.....thanks

[erichertsens]

whow, :-), impressive :-)

[SourceCode2006]

Fuckin great work man!

[payamnet]

good job man

[Sp33dstix]

do you have a source for the glcd library?

[kantharaju246]

haiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[KJJohnson05]

good work man.

[itsmeohmeandme]

Whered you get that SD card slot?

[dplauritsen]

Neat project ! i would like to Jtag into cell phones to play a bit with the tiny camera on the fone! might you have any ideas?

Dan

[caesiume]

Really nice work! I just bought my first microcontroller and GLCD today...can't wait to get started with it ;)

[TooKoolKris]

I have experience with SD cards less than 4GB. Once you go 4GB and above, you have to pay for the data sheets as the higher densities cards operate slightly different than the smaller ones. Message me if you still need help with the SD card.

[natn0]

nice work, men du får jobba på engelskan lite mannen!

[eminaray]

I have little knowledge on PIC microcontrollers. can U help with tutorials on PIC18F series controllers

[ssaguiar]

Very good, really! What compiler did you used? C language, assembler? I am starting  a project that needs to use a graphic lcd with a rtc and a sd card to store data. Congratulations.

[eman737]

Great work man thats really awesome

[Gintaras]

Can it run Crysis?

[yuraider87]

Epic win.

[DavidAlshNZ]

fuckn loled

[manufacturedZ3R0]

Good work and an impressive project. I'm currently starting to get into PIC microcontrollers for audio projects and found your vid while looking around youtube. An inspiring and well explained video for those looking to get into working with these.

[lucianomulki]

Oh my... very good... Go check my channel, there are some relations videos...

[josuecarnivoro]

I have some basic PIC knowledge, how did you overcome the flickering on the GLCD with so much movement of graphics??

(Very cool project by the way, congrats!)

[tiagofumo]

so... you did it by your self... or did you go by a tutorial...if not... so you made a course or something? I mean... can you tell me how did you start to know this things? from where you started to learn? I means... books... courses... etc...

[Kdg86]

This design is completely made by me. I didn't take any course, I just started out with what seemed simlpe. Like light a LED. Make two LEDs flash and so on. Something that I have come to sense with he last couple of years is that it is really necessary to read the datasheet for the PIC you are using, there you can read about all the features of your PIC and use them to get as high speed as possible. Also test as many sample codes as you can and try to figure out why they work. /Kdg86

[robo3001]

good job¡¡

[bernardstef]

nice device ;)

[Angeluszq]

man what did u use to draw these shapes ?

and how did u get that LCD, it looks big

[Kdg86]

For the shapes I used a homemade GFX-libary, you can find the algorithm for circles in C on wikipedia, search for "mid-point circle algorithm".

The line drawing algorithm uses "Bresenhams line drawing algorithm" also on wikipedia.

The lcd I bought on ebay. But if I were you I would start with a Nokia color lcd since it is more in fashion now and still easy to use.

[averagemale]

very well explained, very cool project; thanks for sharing.

[MyDestinTeChNoCrAt]

Dude I'm Peter Manoj what is the cost of your project and drawbacks..?

[edtronic]

diagram! diagam!!

[Pulstar]

hello from portugal.

as told, mikroc has a library that allows you to read/write to a sd/mmc card...it also has a built in library for the I2C protocol, USART, LCD and GLCD displays among others. Very easy to use them, with some samples to follow. Everything you need is in that program. You could also use Proteus to simulate your project, instead of buying the hardware and mount it. At least, you'll know if your code works.

I'm also interested on the algorithm for the circles...

[UntakenNick]

You made it in C.. right? Or in assembler..?

[jld837]

That's gotta be in C. I can't imagine 6 kb of code in assembly...

[samir1612]

cool ! that was awesome.

[sm5uiu]

Snyggt jobbat! Blir själv sugen på att testa glcd...

73 de Sam

[thedragonsreborn]

Hey, Your project it's very cool, I don't know a lot about pics, but I think that I have seen some info on some websites, so let my search it and I'll talk to you when I have some info.

I'm Argentinian, but next year I'll move to USA to begin with my studies (I Think I'll study Computer Engineering Technology, or something like that, because I'd like to merge computers and electronics.). But when I finish my studies on the US, I'd like to move Sweden and work in any luxury cars company.

[rboghdady]

I want to ask a question.. Have you find any job in that field in your Country?

If yes What is your country?...Thank you ..Ramy

[Kdg86]

Hi! Nope, not yet. But that´s because I don´t have any papers about my knowledge. That´s why, as you can read in my profile, I´m moving to Gothenburg to begin my studies this fall. And after that it will probaly be fairly easy for me to find work in this field. My country is Sweden, I´m Swedish.

It will be a while before I upload any new videos here now, because of the moving to Gothenburg, but after that I will begin my upload again.

But I´m still here to answer comments and questions! /Kdg86

[r0nd0m]

Dont give up! you will find something in eletronics area.

Your video is so nice, you made a fantastic job with it!

[WardXmodem]

This is great, you have done a wonderful job!

I'm a PIC programmer myself, enjoy it, and have some small text LCDs I plan to work with.

You're an inspiration!

I particularly liked the circles, and am curious what algorithm you used. (I use x = x + y/n, y = y - x/m, and with "bad precision" can make WONDERFUL things (Cite: Byte Magazine article "Serendipity circles") which look like fractals, etc.

Thanks to pjurcevi - from whom I learned SD's have an SPI mode! Cool!

[latecruz]

Hello Kdg86.

Could you tell me where do you learn to program this GLCD? Where I can find information about it?

What model is it?

I always wanted to do the hardware of a video game console, and I like very much your project .

Do you have schematics or webpage?

Very good job.

[Kdg86]

I´d learned by trying, many hours of failure. But once you got the hang of it, you will be able to do what ever you like.

The GLCD did I bought on ebay, it´s a standard GLCD and uses the KS0108-controller. It´s easy to find datasheet and info for it on the web.

I got no schematics but it all depends on your configuration in your code.

[grrumpff]

Mycket bra! fast... det tog mig ett tag att fatta att det var en IR-mottagare. (uttalas ganska likt "aj-ar")

[bytedildo]

cool

[rboghdady]

Great job, To read the Sd card easily ,one way is to use the mikroC compiler it had a ready made class for mmc ;it is easy to attach to the standart SPI of PIC18FXX and read from them a bitmap for example...Good Luck

[msohed911]

I made a full smart home project by ATmega8 and C language, but I still need the interface between the microcontroler and SD or CF if possible.

thaks

[sersol2]

I did do the samples of proton pic basic, but I dont have the sample about SD card on basic.

I have the sample of microchip USB card with SD card. but this are do at C lenguage for mass storage class.

I hope you can helpme how do the interface to PIC to SD CARD.

thanks

[hankfletcher]

5 stars! Really nicely done! Maybe you've worked out your SD card interface already, but if not, I noticed the kronos robotics website has a good tutorial on doing that.

Sorry, rendering 3-D graphics is a bit beyond my programming abilities at this point! You might try surfing some BASIC forums where users have developed programs that emulate that, just to get your head around it, and then see if you can port what you've learned into the PIC via Proton?

Good luck, whatever you do!

[80amnesia]

nice project

[pjurcevi]

Hi,

To communicate with the SD-Card you can use the SPI interface of the PIC and initialize the SD-Card in SPI-Mode

[WarriorFootball]

nice old school vector grafix with pic . people seame to understimate the power of the pic. I cannot build something like this shit my pic programing is terrible. I however can apreciate this great project.

[carlosmangini]

fantastic!!!

[mdmde]

Very cool project.

[Amishman35]

You already had my respect 40 seconds into the video, the time you spent just soldering it must have taken hours! Then you have vector graphics (the 80s rule!), as well as a file-system check, and moving drawings...as well as a backlight, SD card, and Infrared port...hey, it could be made into an Infrared oscilloscope, optical narrowband television receiver, SD photo viewer/movie player (the LCD seems pretty fast), If I had your smarts I'd have a ball with this thing...

[mohsinkada]

hi can i know your college degree! that cool man. but is there eny kind of protocol between EPROM and the pic. and how could you work with Sd's.

[GRIMMREPS]

Wow, I wish I could make something like that!

Nice work.

[morto360]

very nice porject!! im not sure about 3d graphics on MCs, but i think u have to write a simple 3d engine... maybe there r some opensource projects for this.

[aleksandra1003]

Hi,

Very interesting is your project, may I ask you something, What kind of uController you are using with what enwirement "to program it"?

You are storing the receiving Data(Usart) in to what kind of Chip(I2C), EEPROMs have a limited number of write circles? But I see it works quiet fast and is powerful, nice work.

Why two uC, one for Display and the other one for IR detector?

Have nice Day

[Kdg86]

Hi!

I´m using Microhip PIC microcontroller.

I´m programing in Proton Basic.

Yes, I´m using two I2C EEPROM from Microchip 24AA1025.

Yes, One microcontroller for display and memorymanagement, and one for the IR detector.