Picbasic Serial Example
Home Articles Ducane furnace manual oil pump. Access Serial Ports with PICBASIC. Access Serial Ports with PICBASIC. This article originally appeared in the May 2008 Nuts & Volts. Also see Access Serial Ports with Visual Basic.NET. Last time I showed how to use Visual Basic.NET to transfer data via a PC’s serial ports, including USB virtual COM ports. PicBasic Pro program to demonstrate reading and writing the hardware serial port without HSERIN and HSEROUT. Defaults to 2400 bps.
Interfacing with your PC is very easy with Basic, download Microsoft Visual Basic Express (Free download) and grab a DS275 (a single chip RS232 - TTL) To make your DB9 connector proto-PCB friendly, cut off the unrequired Pins, eg And either buy, or build your DB9 lead; The connector shown above is a solderless clamp type, very easy to use. Then you will have to learn the basics of setting up your COM port, and how to send data either way. May help you to do that, included are the Visual Basic files, and the Proton PIC Basic file.