Wouters list is an excellent start.

If you don't have a great inspiration for "something special", a good 
idea is to build a piece of test equipment that you are lacking.  Make a 
function generator, a logic probe, temperature data logger, etc.  You 
will end up with a good project, will learn lots and will have a useful 
tool.

If you need any ideas for getting your project organized, see the 
posting by Dave Tweed regarding contests.  His info is at least 99% 
overlap with a good project for work or for school.

Good luck!

wouter van ooijen wrote:
>> If anyone has any ideas for a project that would interact with a 
>> computer using PICs, so that there is a hardware element as well as 
>> software. I have only recently started using PICs and my knowledge of 
>> them isn't that great but I would like to improve on this.
> 
> - low-frequency oscilloscope and/or logic analyser
> - recording some physical measurement (temperature, humidity,
> acceleration, sound pressure, hartbeat, etc) over time for later storage
> and/or presentation and/or analysis
> - a 'protected' bootloader (for various meanings of 'protected'!)
> - a PIC introduction course that makes the world forget about the 16x84
> - a PIC video frame grabber with reasonable resolutio
> - a room-sized GPS: low-budget position and orientation sensing in a
> room or on a table (use sound, IR, long-wave radio, whatever you want)
> - help kyle (the current jal maintainer/developer) to port Jal to the
> 18F's
> - a LED experiment: is 100% 10mA or 50% PWm 20mA more visible (for
> various brands, colors, duty cycles, average currents, etc)
> 
> Wouter van Ooijen
> 
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