Tony, On Mon, 23 May 2005 11:27:47 +1000, Tony Smith wrote: > Since you're in the UK, you should have mentioned www.picaxe.co.uk! A Basic > Stamp on a single chip, several varieties (8-40 pin, if I recall). I didn't want to muddy the waters any further! :-) > Put it in a white breadboard, download a program via RS-232, have a play. > If you get bored of the Basic, wipe it and you're left with a real PIC. I admit it's something that I have always been meaning to play with - I don't know how they do it for the price, which is not much more than the cost of the PIC itself (and you're right, they have offerings using several PICs across the range). > Peter Anderson - www.phanderson.com sells them in the States. Quick, he's > going on holidays in a few weeks! But for those Right-Ponded among us, they're cheaper to buy direct (which makes a nice change :-) http://www.picaxe.co.uk Cheers, Howard Winter St.Albans, England -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist