Drew Maurer wrote:
> Thanks, I check out the other classes of PICs. My bot is 24'
> stem-to-stern
> so my plan was to keep cost and complexity low by running only DC
> power and serial comm lines to the extremities of the boat, with
> several generic/"general purpose" microcontroller modules living next
> to the distributed pockets of sensors or actuators.  Ergo I chose the
> biggest, most feature-packed PIC I could find for the generic
> modules, hoping that it'd be adequate for the various applications.
> Generally the 16F747 has enough
> toys, though obviously this particular problem is a little tricky.  I
> have
> no answer as to why I didn't look outside the 16F lineup; tradition I
> suppose.

Yeah, that sounds like a natural for a full featured 24H or 33F with CAN
module.


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