Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:


> Hi.
> I am looking for a couple of "show cases" where a PIC was used in
> a fun and simple way. Two that comes to mind are Rob Hamerling's
> "Christmas Candles 2002" project and Herbert Graf's "CarMon" project
> (maybe not "entry level", but nice anyway...).
>
> Any other simple projects that comes to mind ? It's nice if there is some
> web page with a few images of the finished project that I could print
> on a OH film. Note, I'm not going to "use" the project as such, just show
> them as PIC examples.
>
> I'm going to talk for 12-20 min in a second grade technical school class,
> and try to get a couple of them to run a PIC-based project. The project
> will at the same time be an evaluation of using PICs (or rather
> microcontrolers in general) on this level.
>
> So the emphazis is on *what* you can do, not *how* you
> do it. None or just a few technical details. Nice/fun images
> are better then techincal details.
>
> Any ideas ?
> Best Regards !
> Jan-Erik.
>

http://xcprod.com/titan/XCSB/LED_MUX_MOVIES/face-001.mpg

Some other movies in the same directory

Technical details at http://xcprod.com/titan/XCSB/CONTRIB/ under heading "8x8
Multiplexed LED Array"

Regards
Sergio Masci

http://www.xcprod.com/titan/XCSB - optimising structured PIC BASIC compiler

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