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>How many times have any of us made an LED blinky?  I can't count them -
>that is often the first step in a prototype, it proves that the PIC is all
>correctly hooked up, the timers are set right,  later it gives me a visual
>heartbeat watchdog on the PIC's health, and sometimes in the middle of a
>project when a PIC refuses to work at all  the whole thing grinds to a
>halt and I go back to a BLinky to see if the basics are working right.  I
>put a Blinky on my bicycle helmet to keep from getting killed in traffic,
>which I could have gone out and bought for less money (mine is better
>though) Yet the Blinky is considered the "merit badge" of PIC projects,
>pretty good for a boy scout but not worth much otherwise.

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/sirennet/whelslimmver.html

Not bad, for a LED blinky.
I did a clone in the AVR, with some extra features like sending an SOS blink if you power up with the pattern button down.



Lots more here.
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/sirennet/grbomo.html

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