So, some clarification:

This was eWaste collected by a REALLY cool local guy, Shad, and his outfit:
http://www.ourplanetrecycling.com/

He is giving these up as a way to introduce himself and his company and
hopefully get a bunch of your eWaste in return. He makes money by reselling
this sort of thing or processing it for the raw materials.

These boards looked cool enough that I ask if I could have them and he is
willing to just give them away in hopes of some good eWaste Karma down the
road. How neat is that?

If you are local, just let me know when we can meet, and if you are out of
the area, and don't mind paying a few dollars for postage (e.g. $5) I can
send you a few boards.=20

If you produce something cool that works with this board, and you can share
the details of how you programmed it, then we can work out sharing the rest
of the boards.

--
James Newton
1-970-462-7764=20

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James Newton
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 10:01
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Subject: RE: [PIC] Free junk board 18F8720


Sorry, that link wasn't public... this one should be:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JamesNewton/posts/i22EGq88oVN

--
James Newton
1-970-462-7764=20

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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
RussellMc
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 17:45
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC] Free junk board 18F8720

Prices where given are from Digikey catalog.

As a whole the board is probably hard to use.
But recovering parts may be harder.
Well over $1000 of components on 100 boards IF one has a use for them.


The 18F8720 is over $10/1200 and easy enough to reclaim.

DS1307 is an RTC in SOIC and has crystal (32 kHz) - easy to reclaim and
possibly as useful as anything there .
>$1.50 hundreds

AT29C020 memory is 2 MBit & of questionable worth

CX16245 is a 16bit non inverting bus transciever. 48 tssop. Under $1

CAA2X 16 is apparently a 16 MHz crystal oscillator.
Small leadless pkg a little hard to unsolder or to reuse.


       R

Board image here if not viewable on James' link.
This works for me on an anonymous test.


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On 13 May 2015 at 11:52, James Newton <jamesnewton@massmind.org> wrote:

> There are about 100 of these boards available free from a local
(Escondido,
> CA) eWaste recycler. Has a PIC 18F chip and an Atmel FLASH memory. I'm
> guessing someone could figure out how to program the PIC's and then "do
> something" humanitarian with them. Interested? If you can program a PIC,
or
> know someone who can, I can send you a couple of boards and if you can
> crack it, and have an interesting idea to use them, you can have them all=
..
> If you aren't interested, please pass on to someone who might be? Thanks!
>
> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JamesNewton/posts/CKnu7yU9BGv
>
>
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