RepRap: Blog

I have now imported Andreas's improvements and corrections to the PIC firmware into Simon's experimental autoconf version of the code for the PIC16F648A. It all compiles, and - when put in a RepRap machine - works (at least it did for me...).

If you want to download it it's at

https://reprap.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/reprap/branches/autoconf-firmware

You should probably also look at Simon's instructions on the forum at:

http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?2,3861,3862

We need to do a bit more testing. Then if this all pans out OK this'll become the Subversion trunk version and we'll do a release.

The compiled .hex files (remember they're for a PIC16F648 or PIC16F648A, not a PIC16F628) can be downloaded from here. Unless you have more than one extruder on your RepRap, you can ignore the file extruder_1_.hex.

By putting this:

#define TESTLEN 53
static byte testArray[TESTLEN];

void init2()
{
testArray[TESTLEN-1] = 1;
...

in stepmotor2.c and increasing TESTLEN until the linker barfs I deduce that we have a whole 53 extra bytes to play with in the stepper code now!

Labels: firmware, PIC