THE PARTICLE COMPUTER DOCU
                    (No-Do's and know problems)                   

• Don’t use not stabilized power supplies

• Pay attention to polarity if customizing own cables for e.g. power

• Don’t lay particles or other boards on conductive surfaces, the tracks can short circuit!

• Don’t supply particles with more than 1 cell (0.8-1.3V), it has a step up converter, but no down-regulator.

• Always use hot glue between a 2 pin Molex connector (male) and the cables. Otherwise the wires break easily insight the cable

• Static discharge is crucial to all electronic parts, make sure your work environment and your are discharged before connecting or touching anything

• When programming: keep in mind that an “erase” from a microprocessor programmer like GALEP erases all memory including the internal EEPROM.

• When programming: remember to select the DIL package eventhough the real package of the PIC is QTFP. The program adapter is DIL design!

• use our software and example program

• Particles are based on RF, shielding, interference with over consumer electronic can affect the transmission and interrupt it.!

• check local telecom license and restrictions for RF on 868 MHz, maybe used by others?

• Never program in assembler unless you really know what you’re doing!! Bank-switches on ROM and RAM pages are very dangerous

• When programming on the particle, remember that the RF stack is running and interrupting your program every 13ms!