Hi, Keith, I can understand that the argument can generate hilarity and can be take at the first approach not seriously. Also, if you consider that the english language is not my mother language and writing about girls, hair, battery powered and device, the general hilarity is easy to explode. But now, becaming serious, the business of the depilator is big. In my country is selled a permanent hair removal caming from Cordoba - Argentina, at the equivalent price of 3.500 US dollars. This apparatus, (reading the technical description) are able to generate a variable tension between 200 and 800 Volt, with 45 milliampere at 1 Mhz. The front panel have a timer and a couple pushbutton to increase or decrease the power at the tweezer. This device is powered from main line at 220 volt, and as you know any medical or paramedical device should be powered by batteries to avoid any potential injury of the patience No other technical information I' able to obtain. The spit out at the bikini-line of the hair is not my primary job, (I'm thinking to consider it) but I know the removal is not permanet. Using current at high frequency the bulb of the hair is permanent destroied. My call of PIC DEPILATOR is for discuss about the value of the current, the frequency (fixed or sweeped) the time and other unknow parameter and the way to use the PIC to controll all the function of the apparatus. Yours more seriously :- | Leonardo -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Keith Howell A: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Data: gioved“ 11 giugno 1998 16.13 Oggetto: Re: PIC to help our girlfriends >Leonardo, > >I'm an electronic engineer. >What's a girlfriend? >They sound hairy. >:-) > >If you have one, surely you have more enjoyable things to do >than chat with cyber-nerds on the net? :-) > >There is already an easy way to get rid of unwanted bikini-line hair. >Spit it out! > >If you like making battery powered electronic items for girls, >how about a PIC-driven vibrator? You could make it far smaller >with more features than an organic penis, and if you sell it by >mail order, you can tell people to allow 28 days for it to come! > >Yours non-too-seriously, KH >