> Someone pointed me at this neat clock.  It looks like a couple
> of people playing pong, but the 'score' is actually the current time.
> Rather cute.  Probably an extensible idea, and one of the few things
> I've seen to do with a display that is much larger than your chip's
> memory...

It is indeed quite a neat idea. However, I'm not certain whether the
size of the display versus the PICmicro memory would limit your
possibilities. Most displays I used allow you to read the content of
their memory as well, which means that basically your PICmicro's
memory increases by the same amount. But even if you can't read the
display there are clever ways to compress a representation of the
screen in the PICmicro (in my TV-"pacman" I keep the maze in two (one
for the walls and one for the dots) 14-byte arrays inside the 16F628).
Currently the walls look rather boring, but you could make them look
very nice despite them being represented by only one bit. And if you
use the device to output fancy characters it is even easier: you only
need to know which character and where, and the rest can be derived.
But maybe this is not what you meant: let me know if it isn't.

Greetings,
Maarten Hofman.

-- 
http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist