Resistive touchscreen

[MihaiPoli]

Ok so... i have a resistive touchscreen conected to a ar1000 controler, and with a PICkit serial analyzer from microchip i keep trying to connect to LabVIEW and idk for sure how, if someone can help me with some exemples or something so i can understand how should i do that so i can use it as a touscheern for my program. now the thing is i think i should use the VISA serial port, but u can't find my COM from that serial analyzer, every time i plug that usb in, i only can see something at human interface, and nothing more as a com1 or com2 or etc... the comunication should be I2c or SPI , but i'm not sure how i should do it, if someone can explain or help, i will be so greatful.

Thank you!

[Jay14159265]

I can tell you the easiest way to do this, get rid of the ar1000 and get a touch screen that has a USB out (for your mouse) and HDMI in, plug it in to your PC and thats it. 

That being said you can spend some time writing code that parses serial messages from the ar1000, Not sure if the PICkit makes a virtual serial port that your computer can see, If so you will have to find the COM port it creates (you can use device manager) then you can interact with it using VISA. It sounds like it does not make a COM port, the pick kit might not be what you need, you need something that can talk i2c, SPI, or UART. 

[MihaiPoli]

That pick it serial port should make the communication with my pc, the problem is, i have to use those things i mention because is for my final project, and those are things given by my professor, another thing is that i use device manager and i have already 2 strange com ports, but when i connect something else, like the serial analyzer, i can't see any other com port... I can only see something at human interface

[Jay14159265]

Ok, well In the past I have only ever used a picKit with MPLAB to bast code onto a PIC microprocessor, in that context the picKit has a serial debugger that runs in MPLAB so you can debug the C code on the PIC. It looks like the picKit offers some kind of UART debugging (thanks google) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJFcF1VJEYw

You may need to get the user guide for the pickKit to see how to set up the COM port on your PC.