Lance Allen wrote:

> Bob Ammerman wrote:
>
> > Here's a question/contest:
> >
> > who has built the system containing the most PICs?
> >
> > I suppose we'll need a few categories:
> >
> > Most PICs on one board
> >
> > Most PICs in one box
> >
> > Most PICs in one room
> >
> > Most PICs interconnected worldwide via any medium
> >
>
> I am sure this will be puny my many standards but my record is 3 on one board, a
> 16C74, 16F84 and 16C54 all used to control a powerful stepping motor in very fine
> increments of speed.. a sort of DDS, drive a 9 digit LED display, read an encoder
> and various other inputs. It worked well too.
> Now I would use an (stone the heretic!) Atmel FPslic combined FPGA and AVR core
> since I now have access to all the development gear for such beasts at my new job.
>
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I'll submit our current gantry board with 5 PIC18C542s.
X,Y,Z and 0 motors, (Plus other non steppers), lights, bells , whistles.

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