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> I'm working on a project about sending an ASCII code & receiving value from
> a thermistor by using a thermistor.
>
> I'm using Visual Basic to write the language for the Palm Pilot to carry out
> the instructions for sending & retrieving the ASCII & thermistor values
> respectively.  There need to be an interface for retrieving the analogue
> value from the thermistor, thus I decided to use a PIC16C73 carry out the
> instructions of converting analogue to digital values & transmitting the
> value back to the Palm Pilot.  However I'm blur about how the
> microcontroller will understand the ASCII value & starts doing a conversion
> & thus sending the converted value back to the Palm Pilot.  Can I copy the
> normal codes on available on the PIC16C73 data sheet to do that?
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go to peter andersons page:
http://www.phanderson.com/PIC/
and read everything there at least twice.  You will also need the
pinout of the hotsync cable to figure out how to build a connector.
I havent found support for the ir yet to transfer data in the air.
good luck.
alice