On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

>
> It would have a number of sexy peripheral items to experiment with, already
> provided so there is no difficulty with adding hardware to experiment, and
> the owner can therefore leap straight in and learn software techniques for
> driving the different items.
>
> A CD of useful software, tutorials, and example programs would be provided.
>

  I'm already thinked to a such PCB/CD/book. It'a almost done but is
designed for Jal ( which is more proper for beginners that any
assembler or C or picbasic compiler) and will be distributed with our new
book. It has a section
with +5V supply and 3 different midrange PIC-flash microcontrollers, two
of them may be used simultaniously, a serial & parallel  LCD, AD,
4x7seg digits, RS232, RS485, potentiometers, various temperature sensors,
eeprom, serial to parallel and reversed registers, leds and a really large
protoboard area.
 The whole PCB is on a simple eurocard and the user MUST solder his own
connection to the pic pins. There isn't hw without sw on PIC land so
don't excuse the user to do only PIC programming, that's the bigest mistake
you may do. The experimenter must spend an equal time in developing his own
hardware and software design. ( even in assembler you may expect your
beard growing until finishing the firmware )

best,
Vasile

http://www.geocities.com/vsurducan

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