I want a PIC with two ADC inputs ( 10bits ) , 8 GPIO , a  
timer ......     It can be as slow as molasses.   What is crucial to  
me is that it is $5 or less: that I can pick up a cheep and trivial  
method of programming it ( $25 ) ; that I can get a cheep development  
IDE with Basic or C or whatever ($ 25 )  ; that it runs on 3.3 or 5  
volts.   The bigger the physical size of the pins, the better.  DIP is  
better than SOIC, etc.

I want to quickly bang out a really creepy , dirty , data aquisition  
device that samples two ADC inputs twice per second and talks to  
another device via SPI  ( in, out, clk ) as the slave to a master.    
There will be no demand on the PIC ; the SPI will be slow ( 1K bit per  
second )  , with a total traffic of maybe 50 - 100 bits per  
second ) .  The master will not bother the PIC for .25 seconds after  
asking for status so there is plenty of time to complete an ADC cycle.

Gus
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