Controlling the PIC-IO board from your PC
PIC-IO from Olimex is a small but powerful development board who let you control 4 optoisolated input and 4 relay outputs (220V,10A) with this features is possible to turn on and off almost any electronic device at home.
This board is almost a discrete PLC module and it has a serial port RS232 that allow you to communicate with a PC. The signals from de input channels can be analyzed by the PIC and this one could generate a output.
In this short tutorial we will show how to use the PIC-IO board to communicate it with a graphical interface that let you turn on and off the outputs from a PC. If you work a little bit in this example you could control devices (lamps, small motors, sprinklers) from your computer easily.
What do I need?
1 development board PIC-IO
1 Microcontroller 16F628 (can be any other compatible with PIC-IO, just be sure to compile the code for the model that you are using)
1 PIC-PG1 programmer (to program the pic)
1 serial cable (to work comfortable)
12V power supply
Visual Basic 6.0
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Tags: 12v power supply, 16f628, electronic device, graphical interface, input channels, lamps, little bit, olimex, pg1, pic 1, port rs232, programmer, serial cable, serial port, signals, sprinklers, visual basic 6
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