Re: xPL apps + projects

[Ian Lowe]

>Also my pic code for this is in assembler and at this stage i
> will continue with asm unless someone has got some PICBASIC code they
would
> like to share to start me off...

As for PICs, I suspect that the smallest of the PICs cannot support the
proper xPL environment, if you include group, filter and configuration
support... thing is, in practice, these things have proven to be very, very
useful, and I guess will be even more important for small devices.

I have had a major setback, in that my PIC programmer didn't like an 18F
chip: so much so that the thing burned :

I'm saving up to get a half decent programmer just now, so development on
that side is kinda on hold :(

> Projects ??? What hardware is being developed at the moment..???

I reckon the 16F648 and upwards will handle the complete protocol across
serial quite easily: The 18F devices look rather sexy though, and raise the
possibility of native ethernet ;)

in project terms, I have a few gizmos at the breadboard stage, but I'm
kinda crippled at the moment with no way to program PICs...

specifically, I'm looking at three things:

1) A four zone central heating controller
2) A "universal" IR receiver
3) A SP-DIF router*

* once I get my head around the maths, yeck.