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On Friday 24 October 2008 12:36, Robin Cornelius wrote: > Hi Tom, > > PIC's are probably ideal for this. They are simple multifunction > devices usually with a 8-10 bit A/D some digital IO etc and require no > external components other than a power supply. Internal oscillator > provided. Just need to have suiible signal conditioning for the A/D > range and to buffer any in/out as needed for the app. RS232 port or > USB as well on them. > > If you need any help, we have programmers for PICs here, although the > basic ones are cheap anyway. You couldn't actually give me some clues to suppliers/prices/details here - searches for this sort of thing seem to be hijacked and the closest I've got is for a Philips LPC900 but the UK link takes me to arrow.co.uk who don't seem to have functioning e-mail - I've never had a reply from them yet! I guess these things should be in the £5 per one off region?? Tom te tom te tom > > Robin > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:15 PM, <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Posted by "Tom Potts" <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > I'm looking for a small and very very cheap microcontroller - > > it basically needs to pump out a little binary and read a little AC - 8 > > bits (cant remember the name of the non-linear compression technique that > > phones used to use but that would be nice) Any pointers? > > Tom te tom te tom > > -- > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > Generated by the contributors page > > in the members area at D+C GLUG > > http://www.dcglug.org.uk/members/list.php > > webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > -- > > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html