Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>> Here's a link to the current schematic of my project, I'd appreciate if
>> you'd take a look and see what you think, give me advice! :-D
>>     
>
> Nice project, do publish it somewhere on the web when you are finished. 
> (extra points for selecting the 887 instead of an older chip) If you 
> have no web space available call James.
>   

Thanks. I've already got a working one finished and it's great... except 
I was very cavalier with it, leaving out current-limiting resistors and 
so forth. This time arround, I want to make a "bulletproof" product.

> You used a funny style for the schematic, which probably makes it more 
> readable for absolute beginners, but less for more experienced persons. 
> Some details are omitted (power decoupling, reset circuit values).
>   

I don't know what "power decoupling" is.

As for the reset circuit values, well I haven't even thought about them 
yet. I'll get my board made, populate it with 99% of the components, and 
then I'll take the time to think about the resistor and capacitor values.

> You are reserving RB6/7, that's required when you want to debug, not 
> when you just want to program.
>   

To be honest I'm being as braindead about it as I can be so that I don't 
make mistakes. I won't to use the "standard" interface to the Pickit2 
and be done with it because I'm perfectly happy with how the Pickit2 
works with my demo board.

> Depending on the currents, I might have selected a HC595 for the low 
> side driver, saving some PIC pins.
>   

Somebody mentioned this chip to me already. I looked it up and go its 
datasheet but I couldn't make any sense of it. Haven't a clue what it does.

> What's that thingy on RE2, an SMD LED? Without series resistor?
>   

It's a piezo speaker! I'm not the greatest artist :-P

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