Now, two months after I started learning PICs, my first project is
finished. One could probably ask why I didn't do the flashing LEDs
first. Frankly, I don't know. I think it's more fun to construct your
own problems/scenarios and then build the track as the train goes.

Anyway, what I have made is what I call a "Texas hold'em blind
level-tracker". It's similiar to a chess clock, it keeps track of the
time for the blind bets (which is a fixed amount of bet for a specific
period of time). Before I made this, everytime when we played the game
live someone had his or her cellular phone and used a timer on it.
It's pretty boring, so I thought this was a perfect project to learn
PICs.

And it was!

The biggest problem for me during this endeavour was to understand
interrupts. Thanks to you all on PIClist that helped me out
understanding how they work.

I'm attaching a link to a couple of pictures I took of the finished
product, complete with guts and all. The four top segments are timer
(MM:SS), the two bottom are which blind level, and the five buttons in
the middle are "minute +1", "minute -1", "start", "stop", "reset".

http://bos.hack.org/hacks/pokerclock/

And yes, I love recycling!


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