HackADay Business Card WebServer Assembled

Here's a little video of me powering up my HackADay WebServer shortly after I completed assembling it. I can't do much with it yet as I don't have a programmer for the PIC CPU on the board yet.

I built gadget with the help of this: http://hackaday.com/2008/09/25/web-server-on-a-business-card-part-2/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• hackaday
• pic
• pic24f
• webserver
• businesscard
• ethernet
• microsd
• electronics
• soldering
• surfacemount
• diy

[daman1800]

I am a beginner in electronics, but I want to make one of these. I have looked at the HackaDay site, but I'm not making much sense on them. Could you either post more detailed instructions or a video? Thanks

[jamessnell]

Well, for what it's worth, I don't have mine fully working -- an in fact for the moment it's currently not really working at all... Maybe I'll do a bit more of a post on it at some point here.. But as it stands I've sunk about $100 in to this and I'll need to put in another $50 to re-replace some parts and buy the $30 programmer that I don't have...

[turntablist2]

congrats on putting this together, I am quite jealous.. Good luck on findng a porgramer soon. :D

[jamessnell]

lol, thx - I fried the PIC trying to program it with a serial programmer (should have read docs more carefully). I replaced the PIC only to find that I killed the Ethernet chip too. Thankfully, I just ordered an extra. It's costing me a lot more than I thought - but I'm learning a lot - it's been worth doing. :D

[turntablist2]

:D being happy to break stuff, best attitude to have, :D

[jamessnell]

Yup, otherwise no learning occurs and lameness sets in.

[0815521576]

@daman1800 Have you ever learned about the microcontrollers?

You should try them first before start these things.

[DocDawning]

@hamsterhelgrind - Huh, very interesting. You're talking about Ian's Bus Pirate as it exists on Sparkfun?

[hamsterhelgrind]

hmm - 24F is 3.3v programming not 5v :(

Ian's Bus Pirate v0.3 is supporting 24F programming - they are refining their new software at this moment. It's on hackaday and available thru SEEED studios for $30 including worldwide shipping. I got my two chips as samples from microchip, just going to do the same for the bus pirate now - only problem is that runs off a 24F too! chicken and egg!

[watmonki]

I been wanting to create this as well. I saw it earlier on Hackaday. Hopefully you get this up and running so we can learn from your mistakes & perhaps have a less "eventful" time in cfreating one of these. I been wanting to create a webserver controlled Cambot for quite some time.

[teslaresearch]

The ENC28J60 is a nice ethernet controller, especially when it is compared to a RTL8019 or CS8900 for pin density and cost.

You no longer need an excessive ISA bus to control the chips, only the easy to use SPI interface, which leaves more I/O pins of the uC open for whatever you need it for.

The beauty of this IC is that you can use it with your favorite microcontroller, Atmel, Texas Instrument, Scenix, Reneasas, Microchip, Intel, Phillips, et-cetera.

[daman1800]

Still...for me at least it's a tad more satisfying making something yourself and knowing that you can do it rather than going out and buying a pre-made one.