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DaOld Man:
Dusting this thread off.
Since I left this project hanging, I thought I may have time now to finish it.
I lost my hard drive a few years ago and a lot of my work went with it.
I was working on a USB version of mrotate to go with the PIC board mentioned in this thread.
I have found some backups but I think what I have needs more work.
Not sure if anyone is interested, but I feel I need to finish up these projects I have left hanging.

ger:
I would love it to buy, test and use it

Cheers
Ger

DaOld Man:

--- Quote from: ger on July 15, 2020, 11:32:41 am ---I would love it to buy, test and use it

Cheers
Ger

--- End quote ---

Great!
I have the board somewhere, cant remember where i stored it. As soon as I find it I will get back on this program.
Let me see if I can find a link to that board.

I put the link for that board on page one of this thread. Just checked and it is still in stock (scroll to the bottom of that page I linked to), but looks like it has gone up in price. I dont remember paying that much for it.
Heres the link again:
http://www.electronics-diy.com/USB_IO_Board.php

DaOld Man:
Think I remember why I shelved this project years ago.
Im having trouble getting MSComm to work with the pic chip.
MSComm is a component in VB6 that communicates with the serial ports.
It works great until I run mrotate third or fourth time then program hangs up with error 8015.
I also receive TX Buffer Overrun errors occasional from the chip.
I have tried changing mscomm settings and the receive/transmit buffer sizes in the comport settings in windows device manager.
I also uninstall the driver and reinstalled, that is downloaded from the electronics-diy web site.
Im still searching for a solution but thinking about maybe trying a different board. Its hard to find any tech info on VB6 anymore, I really need to switch to a newer platform, but old dogs new tricks etc.
If anyone can give me some pointers or things to try, I would forever be in your debt.

DaOld Man:
Tried the program on a 32 bit windows vista laptop and it seems to be working fine on it.
So it may be an issue with 64 bit or Windows 10.
Installed driver made for vista and xp 64 bit, but same problem on my win10 64 bit desktop. (Latest driver I could find.)
I would ask you guys to rest it for me, but you must have the pic board hooked up before the program will work.
so, unless you already have this board, I wouldnt recommend you buy one just to test the program for me.

I am still researching this board, but think I will look at others.
For this board to work for our hobby, it needs to work with 32 and 64 bit machines.
And I could still be doing something wrong in my code that talks to the board.
I will continue to develop mrotate5 though, cause it looks like it will work fine on 32 bit.

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