This is always the hard part for me; coming up with fun and interesting
projects.

Right now, as an educational project, I'm working on building a timer, the
user enters a time on a keypad and presses pound to start the time.  The
time counts down on an LCD display and a piezo buzzer is triggered when it
elapses.

Its good practice because it needs to scan a keyboard, and drive an LCD,
neither of which I've done before.  I also added a LM335 temperature sensor
so it display the temperature on the LCD and I decided I will use a DS1307
RTC to keep time so I can learn to use I2C and I'll have a real time clock
on the LCD.

It's not really a fun or whimsical end result, but at least it will be
useful :).

This could be the start of a great thread.  What sorts of projects have
people here done that are primarily for fun?

Jason

----- Original Message -----
From: "Byron A Jeff" <byron@CC.GATECH.EDU>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC:] Beginner looking for suggestions


> 7. Some encouragement: do it because it's fun to do. Build something
whimsical
>    or something useful to you.

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