Archive for February, 2004

SOME MORE APPs !

Sunday, February 29th, 2004

I have tons of applications I am looking at .
Some are simple, others more complex
I talked with my son Jeff last night. He is the author of the book
“Hacking Tivo: the Expansion, Enhancement and Development Starter Kit “. We inspire each other discussing various
ideas.

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THE AMAZING PIC !!

Friday, February 27th, 2004

I would like to report great successes with my
experiments with the PIC16F628 micro-controller.
Thanks to help from guys like Bob Sweeney and a few other
guys like Mike Rioux of the QRA radio club,
a number of my programs are running smoothly.
One has a delay routine with 3 levels of loops
which can give me delays of up to 30 seconds.
Bob Sweeney warned me that the Watch Dog Timer could
be resetting my programs and I believe that was right.

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