Usefull PIC programming tips for PIC16f877A

This article totally depends on my experiences when I doing some microcontroller projects based on PIC16f877A. Further more following article describe the answers which I found for following questions. How to make RA4 as a digital output? How to make RB3 as a digital input? Make RA4(4th bit of PORTA) as a digital output. All the bits...

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Create your own ant build file to create a jar file.

Apache Ant is a build tool mainly focus on Java to build Java applications. Ant uses the xml script file to perform tasks such as, compiling source code,  running software tests,  creating jar files,  creating Javadocs, and  keeping your own file structure within the project folder.  As I earlier explained Ant uses simple xml file to perform its tasks. Therefore let's see how to write a simple xml...

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Set custom pictures for slide show in ubuntu desktop wallpapers

Is that possible to change your desktop wallpaper automatically after some specific time period in Ubuntu environment? Yes, it is. To do that you should create xml file that contain all the information about, picture files which you going to add for slide show, time duration for each wallpaper can appear, time for transition from one wallpaper to another. This xml file should be written manually when you want to create custom...

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