[Robotgroup] Parts donation

[Clendon Gibson]

Perhaps it would be a good idea to find a PCB design that would be a starter board for the PICs. This would give us a 'smooth' transition from the art of PCB photo etch to the art of PIC applications.

----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Atkinson <pmatkinson at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2007 11:04:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Parts donation

Cool, perhaps we can combine the survey results with some donated parts, and
er... make something. How about a PIC based class or special interest group
(SIG) after we get done with Robo-fest, Marvin's field trip, PCB class, etc

Paul

On 6/5/07, Gray Mack <gray_mack at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Nice, these are around $8 a piece.
> I think I saw 5 people interested in PIC programming on the survey.
> I have several '877s in my stock at all times. Pic16 series are easiest
> programmed in assembly (you really need a pic18 if you want to do ansi C
> work) but they are great for timing critical applications like led driving,
> analog input monitoring, servo controllers, motor driving.
>
> For example you could write a program for serial to stepper motor driver
> where you send it X,Y,Z vectors from a PC and it handles the step timing (a
> common problem when driving stepper motors from a PC).
> Just getting the ideas flowing.
>
> -Gray
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Hinkle <mhinkle at lycos.com>
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> Sent: Monday, June 4, 2007 5:56:16 PM
> Subject: [Robotgroup] Parts donation
>
>
> I have had a windfall here at work. Some parts were being surplussed
>    and I would up with four tubes of microcontrollers. I have 20
>    PIC16F877 and 25 PIC16F876. I plan on donating five each to TRG.
>    The '877s are 40 pin DIPs and the 876' are 28 pin SOIC.
>    If I get REALLY crazy, I'll toss in a couple of my MC68HC11F1 (in 68
>    pin PLCC) that I have had sitting around for years..
>    Where do I send them?
>    Cheers,
>    Mark (aka Robomarkov)
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