That sounds a lot like my project. I envision it growing in the ultimate kitchen alarm clock. I'd like to have pre-set time-periods so you can time commonly used intervals at the press of 2 buttons. I agree with you about the stupid set buttons. My watch has a calculator keypad that it uses to type in the time. Since I bought a PDA a few years ago, I haven't used the watch as anything but a time piece, so I've wanted to get something a bit more stylish, but it's that set method that's keeping me hooked on the old one. On a related note, does anyone know a good source for those keypads? I recently moved cross-country and lost most of my equipment, and I don't know of any good electronics stores around here. By mail-order a basic 12 button phone keypad seems to be $5, and I used to buy them for 35 cents. It seems like you can't even buy a decent soldering iron in Seattle. Another really simple project I did was use an LM335 temperature sensor to decide what color to light up an RGB LED, so from -10 to 40 Celcius, it fades from blue through green, yellow, orange, and red. At some point I'll add a switch to have a smaller indoor range like 15-25 so I can see more than just shades of yellow indoors. I like the RGB LEDs, but it's hard to come up with things to do with them besides just random color fading. Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Stortz" To: Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 1:52 AM Subject: Re: [PIC:] Beginner looking for suggestions > something i've always wanted, and will eventually do, is an ordinary > digital alarm clock, but one with a keypad for setting time and alarm > time! i.e. just key in "7:45am" instead of the stupid forward backward > or worse yet just forward counting buttons which i've always considered > stupid and a pain. i've even seen clock/calculator combinations that > still make you do things the hard way when they already have the > keyboard available! it might even be nice to be able to set a > "relative" alarm, i.e. set it for now + the time period keyed in so you > could easily nap for "x" amount of time, when you are too tired to do > math well. > > Jason S wrote: > > > > This is always the hard part for me; coming up with fun and interesting > > projects. > -------- > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.