[time-nuts] PICTIC II ready-made?

[Stanley]

I still have a supply of boards and most parts including the 74ac175 but no 
interest in assembly or the kitting process. If someone would like to take 
this on then I could provide the boards etc ... in bulk. Because of my 
limited space the kitting process takes several hours to do them one at time 
:-(

Stanley

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Latham" <djl at montana.com>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
<time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] PICTIC II ready-made?


>I forgot to add that a simple redrafting of the II as an Arduino shield
> with appropriate chips and chip passives would accomplish the desired
> end without losing the very careful engineering and testing that has
> already been done?
> Would be nice to have a way to change caps without soldering as well,
> maybe just some .1" jumpers?
> Don
>
>
>> It might be time for a group project to design a "Pictic III" that uses
>> parts that are readily available.   Today I'd build it around an Arduino
>> rather than a PIC even if the cost is more.  Arduino is programmable by
>> __anyone__ and plugs into a USB port, no onwwouldhave to supply
>> programed
>> chips and because it is so easy to program maybe some users would try to
>> make improvements and offer them to others.
>>
>> Other suggestions to do something like this have come up on this list
>> but
>> then someone starts talking about using some specialized technology that
>> 99.99% of the readers don't know (like FPGAs)  I'd like to see it done
>> with
>> 25 cent parts and technology a beginner can master
>> --
>>
>> Chris Albertson
>> Redondo Beach, California
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