[geeks] Re: PICs (was: Geeky Valentine's day card)

[Alice Conrad]

If you need any help jon I have kept *all* my uni notes, inc the Analog 
stuff...

The  joys of CompEng - 2 years of general eng. and them 1 semester of EE 
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On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 05:05 PM, Jon Still wrote:

> On Friday, February 15, 2002, at 04:25 PM, Dave Kimmel wrote:
>
> > already have a nice PCB and instructions.  Between the parts listed 
> above
>> and the leftovers from the PIC programmer, you should have enough to
>> start tinkering.
>
> Just have to find a shop in the UK to get this stuff from.  I know 
> there is Maplin's (www.maplin.co.uk) but they are generally *expensive*.
>
>> need an RS-232 level converter, like a MAX233), and various other 
>> things.
>
> Yeah we had to use the MAX233 (and a whole bunch of capacitors) for the 
> 8051/8031 project that I mentioned.  The 8031 we used is just like an 
> 8051 except it has external ROM - meaning we could use EPROM emulators 
> rather than having to queue for the burner and the UV tube all the 
> time :)
>
> I've seen something on Maplin called a PICstart kit that looks pretty 
> good.  I ought to go browse through their (paper) catalogue again and 
> see what I can get.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon.
>
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