>>  Does anyone know of designs for a PIC
>>  based altimeter for use in model rocketry?

Very recently I stumbled upon a design somewhere on the web that does
EXACTLY this.  The documentation provided is great, complete with a
good description, circuit diagrams, part lists and code listings.  The design is
an improvement on a similiar altimeter desing for Model Rockets that was
 published in
RADIO-ELECTRONICS of October 1990, and uses the Basic-Stamp as its
processor.   I can really recommend very strongly that you look at
this article.  It even features some ingenious way of reading the
data from the altimeter.

 I still have a printout of the original article, but I do not know anymore what
the URL of the website is.  If you want to search for it on the web,
use keywords like Herve Cousin (the author), SCX15AN, Sensym etc.   I
also still have the original article on my computer at home, so if you
don't find it, then please email me at werner@aztec.co.za and I will
email it directly to you.

Rgds
Werner
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