At 06:10 PM 8/31/2004, Chris Bond wrote: >Hi. I am new to this list. I am experienced with assembly and using chips >such as the 8085 and Motorola 68000 and a recent graduate of electronic >engineering. I have been reading my butt off on the topic of PICS and have a >programmer and MPLAB and software for simulation. My question is this: For >the wide range of PICmicro's I might work with, what would anyone suggest >for a good component and tool base to begin working with (crystals, >caps..and such.) If you want a low cost packaged starter kit, head over to your nearest Microchip disti and ask about something called the "PICkit". Its a low cost programmer / development board that even has a tiny snap-off project board that can be used by itself. The dev board has some LEDs, a switch or two and a pot and works with the 8 & 14 pin flash parts (comes with a 12f675). Digikey stocks it, as does Arrow and Future. Digikey part # DV164101-ND US $36.00 dwayne -- Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 20 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2004) .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .- `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist