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Quick Start Guide for ChipKit Pi (pdf)

Overview

The chipKITTm Pi is the latest ArduinoTm compatible chipKITTm platform from Microchip and element14 specially designed for Raspberry Pi. It features a 32-bit PIC32MX2xx microcontroller in a prototyping-friendly, low pin count SPDIP package. The PIC32’s performance, memory and integrated peripherals allow users to create applications including touch sensing, audio processing and advanced control. The board is supported by the free chipKITTm Multi-Platform IDE (MPIDE) that can be hosted on the Raspberry Pi and allows users to create, compile and program Arduino sketch-based chipKITTm applications within the Raspberry Pi operating system. This software development was completed by voumnteers from the chipKITTm and Arduino communities.

chipKITTm Pi is the world’s first to enable the development of 3.3V Arduino compatible applications for the Raspberry Pi using a 32-bit, high-performance PIC32 MCU in a prototyping-friendly package. Because the Raspberry Pi’s processor is a 3.3V chip, its digital I/O and communications (I2CTm, UART, SPI) pins require 3.3V. Hence the existing prototyping-friendly Arduino boards, which are all based on 5V 8-bit MCUs, require users to create or purchase additional components to translate the voltages. The chipKITTm Pi can interface directly to the Raspberry Pi I/O Expansion header without any additional components, reducing both cost and design complexity.

The chipKITTm development platform is an open-source hardware and software solution intended for beginners and users with little or no knowledge of embedded controllers wanting to explore embedded applications. The chipKITTm environment advances the art of open-source, physical computing by expanding support to more chip platforms and introducing new, high-performance libraries. It combines low-cost hardware with free software that is fast, powerful, and extendable.

Key Applications: Touch sensing, audio processing and advanced control.

Features

  • Designed exclusively for the Raspberry Pi and Arduino ecosystems
  • Features a Microchip 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller (MCU) in a prototyping-friendly, low pin count SPDIP package
  • Supports the chipKITTm Multi-Platform IDE (MPIDE)
  • MPIDE is open source and compatible with the Arduino programming language and development environment
  • Allows users to create, compile and program Arduino sketch-based chipKITTm applications within the Raspberry Pi operating system
  • Enables the development of 3.3V Arduino compatible applications for the Raspberry Pi using PIC32 MCU

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  • Hi David

     

    Thanks for the update - our posts crossed - am now downloading the newer version from the "Bucket listing"

    Good luck with your CNC activities.

    I think Element14 are going to have to do a lot more work to make this system acceptible to Pi owners. These long downloads are a pain - I was hoping this would be a simple I/O board to use, but compared with say MBED where a Cloud compiler is provided by NXP, this is rubbish.

     

    Still waiting for my download. Time to go now.

     

    Tony

  • in reply to tony1tf

    Hi David

     

    That newest version works OK now - thanks - still had to change the permissions on pic32 with:

    chmod +x -R ./pic32

    I edited the sketch to flash LED1 and LED2 alternately - 5692 bytes

    All fine now, so just have to work out what to do with the board.

     

    Thanks for your help

    Tony

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