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I looked a little bit for an answer and didn't find much. I have a Sansa MP3 player which I love. The original Sandisk earbuds broke (short by the plug - might fix someday). Anyway, I got a few pair of RCA ones from the $ store. They sound good enough for me (not really an adiophile). But, the playe...

I had a thought about PICs in general use. In all the commercial products I have opened up to look at, I have only found 1 that utilizes a PICmicro. It is a Harmony Remote from Logitech.

Where have all of you seen PICs utilized?

Kevin

You brought up a very good point about MC having alot of DIP packages. Also, the 5v vs. 3.3v argument.

Kevin

I am not too keen on companies who have their stuff closed, either. Microchip has a programmer/debugger for $35. And, if you still can't afford that, the schematic and firmware (w/source) are on their website free for the taking. Although PICs leave a bit to be desired I like them and I will continu...

A buddy of mine has one from harborfreight (not sure if it's that exact one, but he got it there). He said it works great. It had no problem with all of the lugs he tried it on - luckily he hasn't "needed" it yet

Kevin

My wife was "garbage sale-ing" Saturday and picked up one of these for my 7 year old boy. Paid a whopping $1.50 for it with all the parts still there. What a buy! He has played with it non-stop except to eat/sleep, etc. He is my new electronics buddy. If you have a kid (or grandkid) and yo...

Well, I guess that would make sense.

I knew what the != (not equal) and || (or) meant. Just not the comma mess. I can say I won't use that style.

Thanks to all who replied

Kevin

Hmmm. Would you happen to know a site that explains the whole process of this?

Kevin

I ran into something in C that I am not sure what is. I wouldn't even know how to google it...

Take the line :

if ( A != B || (C = D, E = F, G > H) ) {

How do the comma parts work?

Kevin

I needed a BYR29-800 and couldn't find anyone who had them in stock. I wrote an email to NXP about it and after a few emails, they said they would send some samples. I needed 2 but they sent 25...

Kevin

Oh... I didn't mean to say that VB is a great language. It is easy but, from what I remember, there is no way to make a DLL or a driver with it. Also, no inline asm (all of which I need). So, when I need to make an executable (exe/dll...) I use delphi or C++. But for every day things, Java is great....

This is kinda advanced but I plan on teaching my son Java. If you want something simpler try Visual Basic from MS. I believe they have a free version. The reason I chose Java (for now) is it's power and portability. I could teach him C, Pascal, Asm, Basic or Java (I know them all) but, I picked Java...

I think this is a great idea. Do it virtually and then print the winners in the mag. And, turn the overall winner into an article. That may help the kids strive for greatness a little more. They may get more people interested if they put some info in the mag about it. Seems to me that alot more peop...

Just out of curiosity, what was the culprit?

Kevin

We have a Sangamo wheel type meter and they never come out here to read it. They told me the meter sends in the data over the power lines... I don't know how true that is, though.

Kevin