At 11:05 AM 8/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Jason Lewis wrote:
>
>> Couldn't a properly clocked PIC generate black/white video?  A
>> buffered
>> 5:1 voltage divider on a port output could theoretically drive a
>> composite
>> video jack, like on a VCR or monitor?
>>
>>
>About four years ago there was a design contest winner in Ciarcia's
>Circuit Cellar Ink that used a '54 as a one IC video wind speed and
>direction gage. It generated B/W NTSC video with block characters that
>showed current wind speed, average wind speed, and direction. I don't
>know if code was available or not. I know I was truly impressed with
>that much being done - all in less than 512 bytes! This article is what
>got me interested in PICs in the first place. Wish I could remember the
>author.
>
>

Issue 32 - March 1993
A SINGLE CHIP VIDEO WIND GAUGE, by Philip C. Pilgrim