Russell and others,

>Sounds interesting. I'll be interested to hear more. If this thread
>continues much longer than a better heading would help attract others who
>may be interested. I only found it because it was the only new PICList

I am pretty interested in this combination of technologies, my last
commercial project was a 4 channel, 16C71 logger in a cylindrical case
approx 110 mm x 20 mm for logging temp and press (8 bit res) in cow and
sheep stomachs. The initial stage is a self contained logger for use in
research beasts with "portholes", dont know the technical name.

Logs at 8 HZ but only stores data if delta pressure exceeds a certain value
or at a presetable background time. This conserves memory which is 1 to 8
256 k bit 8 pin microchip devices. It also conserves transmission power to
download data from the next version, rf telemetered, which the customer has
not proceeded with.

My wife has been in hospital for major surgery and for the last week I have
spent a lot of time seeing where simple temp, heart rate and blood pressure
telemetry could save staff resources. (While wife sleeps I have been
converting above loggers asm to Hi-Tech C :-)).

At the educational establishment where I spent most of my paying time I am
involved in work on monitoring mainly aircraft structures, for this work a
PIC based analysis system, autonomus power generation and telemetry would
combine into a very useful item.

I look at the Seiko "Kinetic" watch as a good example of the integration of
the processor and power source technology, add telemetry and you have a
handy little device.

I too am interested in this thread and only noticed it in similiar
circumstances to Russell.

Cheers

Glen