Chronopic3 to Encoder

Conversion of a Chronopic 3 to be used as an encoder

Ten Wei Hua (NCHC Taiwan), Xavier de Blas Foix. Chronojump project. May 2012.

Description

Chronopic 3 is a microcontroller that runs at 4MHz, in order to be used to capture signals from encoder, we should convert it to 20MHz and add some connectors.

This can be done by us or by yourself.

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Instructions
  1. Chronopic 3 images
  2. Tools that we need
  3. Components needed, and marks
  4. Extracting the 4MHz clock

    4MHz clock is fixed hard to the board, you need to warm both connectors at the same time with enough tin to be able to pull out the clock.

     
  5. Creating bridge for the 20MHz clock and cutting legs to fit in vertical space

    If you cannot put the bridge is because there’s still tin to remove.

    Clock can be installed in both directions.

    You can try to put the original clock just to test that bridge is working ok.

     
  6. Mounting the components

    Fix the black component (CT1) hardly and horizontal. Don’t leave vertical space between CT1 and the board, if there’s space then the pins can get twisted.

    Instructions for right handed people:
    1st fix “1” and “2”, then you can press the component to fix the others

    Then “3”,”4″,”5″,”6″

    Then turn chronopic and do the rest in order.
  7. Connecting CT1 with microprocessor

    Strech the cables to be more maleable. Don’t cut them too much to avoid the contact with other connections.

     
  8. Result
  9. Making connectors for encoder
     
  10. Connecting to encoder
    Encoder pin CT1
    A red positive 5
    B black negative 6
    C white 9
    D green 10
  11. Record encoder bootloader and firmware

    Bootloader for 20MHz is different that bootloader for 4MHz

    Redording bootlader is not easy, if you are doing this chronopic conversion, is best to ask us for a microchip that has been already recorded and we send it to you.

    1. Download 20MHz Bootloader. File is called: PIC16_bootloader.hex. Record it with the two Sypic method
    2. Put recorded PIC in the 20MHz Chronopic
    3. Download 20MHz Firmware
    4. Record it with Pydownloader. Download for Ubuntu, or Windows (It’s good to test first recording the ledp firmware)