On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:38 AM, William Chops Westfield wrote: > This also cropped up recently on hackaday: > http://www.calcwatch.com/ > > PIC24 based scientific calculator in watch-sized module. All open > source. Available as a kit. 100 Hours of runtime on 2xcr2032 > batteries. Runs at 250kHz. > > Uses Microchips C30, which apparently includes 64bit floats (makes > sense; it probably uses a generic Gnu floating point library.) > > Personally, I hate it when I find someone has already done the > pointless project I had in mind (and gone further than I had intended > on going.) The whole point of doing something pointless was to be > unique. Sigh. > > BillW > Haha! I know what you mean. And THANK YOU for letting me know that C30 has 64 bit float! Since 16 bit PICs are available in DIP packages, it makes it very easy for use in projects! This experiment is fun for me, I don't care if people think it's pointless. To me it has a point. -- solarwind -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist