>Hi,
>
>I think it would be interesting to find out what designs the PIC is
>capable of, so feel free to add to this, and add a small description!
>
>
>
>Personally I have designed and built are:
>
>
>1) 64 Way cable tester (detects shorts, opens, crossed wires, then
>displayed faulty wires using LED grid)
>
>2) Lost key beeper (Beeps after 24 hours of none movement)
>
>3) Light that turned on when user stepped on a hidden security mat
>(transmitted to a lamp via RF and turned the Lamp on)
>
>4) Intelligent battery Display using LCD to display run time of battery
>
>
>OK its over to you, what novel or bizarre things have you done with PIC?
>
>Thanks Gary
>
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> Hi,
>
> I think it would be interesting to find out what designs the PIC is
> capable of, so feel free to add to this, and add a small description!
>
>
>
> Personally I have designed and built are:
>
>
> 1) 64 Way cable tester (detects shorts, opens, crossed wires, then
> displayed faulty wires using LED grid)
>
> 2) Lost key beeper (Beeps after 24 hours of none movement)
>
> 3) Light that turned on when user stepped on a hidden security mat
> (transmitted to a lamp via RF and turned the Lamp on)
>
> 4) Intelligent battery Display using LCD to display run time of
> battery
>
>
> OK its over to you, what novel or bizarre things have you done with
> PIC?
>
> Thanks Gary
>
> --

> I am relatively new to PIC - about 1 month and have ported
> software from
> Zorld Jackrabbit to PIC16F628.  The Zworld code took about 24
> K of program
> space, the pic version took only a bit over 1K.
>
> Check out my first PIC - JAL project
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jallist/files/AlainP/proto.htm
>
> Alain Pelletier
>

> > Hi,
> >
> > I think it would be interesting to find out what designs the PIC is
> > capable of, so feel free to add to this, and add a small
> description!
> >
> >
> >
> > Personally I have designed and built are:
> >
> >
> > 1) 64 Way cable tester (detects shorts, opens, crossed wires, then
> > displayed faulty wires using LED grid)
> >
> > 2) Lost key beeper (Beeps after 24 hours of none movement)
> >
> > 3) Light that turned on when user stepped on a hidden security mat
> > (transmitted to a lamp via RF and turned the Lamp on)
> >
> > 4) Intelligent battery Display using LCD to display run time of
> > battery
> >
> >
> > OK its over to you, what novel or bizarre things have you done with
> > PIC?
> >
> > Thanks Gary
> >
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>

> [deletia]
> >
> > 6) PIC based LED flashlight
> >
>
>         Really a great list of projects! We always joked that
> a processor based
> flashlight would need three buttons. Those being; ON, OFFF, and RESET.
>
> Harold
>

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>Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 10:35:24 -0700
>
>On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 08:20:04 -0700 John Dammeyer <johndEraseMEAUTOARTISANS.COM>
>writes:
>
>
>[deletia]
> >
> > 6) PIC based LED flashlight
> >
>
>         Really a great list of projects! We always joked that a processor
>based
>flashlight would need three buttons. Those being; ON, OFFF, and RESET.
>
>Harold
>
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>Subject: Re: What have you designed using PIC?
>Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:46:11 -0700
>
>The PIC monitors the number of dead batteries and displays them on a little
>LCD which it powers by sucking what little juice is left in the batteries
>out via a charge pump.
>
> > Everybody knows the real purpose of a flashlight and I don't see a PIC
> > having any place in it.  A flashlight is a place to store your dead
> > batteries...
> > Fred
> >
>
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>Hi,
>
>I think it would be interesting to find out what designs the PIC is capable
>of, so feel free to add to this, and add a small description!
>
>
>
>Personally I have designed and built are:
>
>
>1) 64 Way cable tester (detects shorts, opens, crossed wires, then displayed
>faulty wires using LED grid)
>
>2) Lost key beeper (Beeps after 24 hours of none movement)
>
>3) Light that turned on when user stepped on a hidden security mat
>(transmitted to a lamp via RF and turned the Lamp on)
>
>4) Intelligent battery Display using LCD to display run time of battery
>
>
>OK its over to you, what novel or bizarre things have you done with PIC?
>
>Thanks Gary

>
> Since stupid human was mentioned below i just had to share my story...
>
> When i was quite young I thought I knew a bit about things electrical, so
> nearing xmas the tree was up and the lights were yet to work.
>
> So fresh out of the swimming pool, still wet and sitting on a concrete floor
> I thought it was time to fix em.
>
> I read the voltage on the bulbs, 14volts.  Ahh I thought that cant hurt me
> so I began to insert wires so i could work out which bulb was open circuit.
>
> Yes you guessed, I got a very good 240v shock, but i think the bigger shock
> was that my assessment was soooo wrong.
>
> Took me many years before i discovered exactly why i got booted.