On 5/11/07, 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 Learn from others experience first: http://www.cmccord.co.uk/FYP/Downloads.htm This would get an A (or 10) if you focus more technical aspects and forget so much bla-bla. > - recording some physical measurement (temperature, humidity, > acceleration, sound pressure, hartbeat, etc) over time for later storage > and/or presentation and/or analysis Here problems will be bigger, because you have to learan first all physical phenomenas (considering that electricity you already know). Interaction with human body will cause all kind of problems starting with perturbations and ending with pacient isolation. This would be a bigger chalenge. > - a 'protected' bootloader (for various meanings of 'protected'!) read from others experience: http://www.etc.ugal.ro/cchiculita/software/picbootloader.htm > - a PIC introduction course that makes the world forget about the 16x84 This will be impossible. PIC16X84 was the most popular chip in the world back in '95. > - a PIC video frame grabber with reasonable resolution Do not spend time doing great things with too much effort. Nowadays there are available DSPs with 2.5Ghz clock for which such job is a piece of cake. Remember: NOT everything in the world must have a PIC inside. > - 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) Why not using a powerful GPS transciever inside the house ? > - help kyle (the current jal maintainer/developer) to port Jal to the > 18F's What is Jal? Something like this: http://www.geocities.com/vsurducan/comunity/comunity.html > - a LED experiment: is 100% 10mA or 50% PWm 20mA more visible (for > various brands, colors, duty cycles, average currents, etc) That is for kids not for english students... :) Vasile -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist