Trying to read from a linear CCD

I found some more time to play with the linear CCD that Billy had sent me. If you remember last time, I'd managed to get a working clock signal and I could "see" the output on an oscilloscope. In some ways, that was the easy bit! Actually getting the output into a digital form is harder than it looks.

Fun with a Linear CCD

Some time back, Billy gutted a USB scanner, so he could grab the fun parts like mirrors, steppers etc. He sent me the board with the sensor on it, in the vague hope I might be able to do something with it. Sadly, I didn't take a picture of the original board then. Initially, I looked over the board, and could identify the memory, the scanner USB chip, and the fact there was a linear CCD onboard. After figuring out there wasn't anything much I could do quickly, it sat on the side for a while. Eventually, I figured that I should do something with it, and if I was going to do anything with it, I'd need to figure out how to interface with the CCD. If nothing else, I figured this would be a good learning exercise.

PICKit2 and Fubarino SD

If you've been playing with a Fubarino SD, then you probably already know it's designed to be Arduino code compatible (as long as direct hardware access is avoided). However, I wanted to do something else with it, using MPLABX (The Microchip IDE). This is where things get a bit more interesting, and I haven't figured out all the answers yet. Basically, I wanted to update the firmware on a Roland Juno-D keyboard, and wanted some way of sending the data over.