AGSCalabrese wrote:
> 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's easy.  Plenty of PICs fit that.

> that I can pick up a cheep and trivial
> method of programming it ( $25 ) ;

That severly limits any commercial offerings.  My LProg actually fits this,
http://www.embedinc.com/products, but it's for the 3.3V only PICs.

> that I can get a cheep development
> IDE with Basic or C or whatever ($ 25 )

MPLAB is free.  This is such a simple application I don't understand why it
has to be Basic or C, but you can use some free compiler version with little
or no optimization since you don't care about speed or code size.

> that it runs on 3.3 or 5 volts.

That's all PICs I believe.

> The bigger the physical size of the pins, the better.  DIP is
> better than SOIC, etc.

Plenty of PICs come in DIP, including some 3.3V 18F parts.

> 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.

Your requirements are somewhat contradictory.  This is apparently a one off,
so it doesn't make sense that everything be so cheap since you're only
buying it once.


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