[time-nuts] PICTIC II ready-made?

Robert Darlington rdarlington at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 19:26:42 UTC 2012


If you guys go the PIC route, I'm always happy to burn them for the
group for cheap.   I think in the past I was doing 5 bucks for the
first one (including delivery) plus $2.50 for each additional.   I
still have a ton of those plastic chip tubes for mailing them so the
pins don't get bent.

-Bob

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Stanley <timenuts at n4iqt.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
>> --
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>> are as significant as experiment, for thence comes quiet to the mind."
>> R. Bacon
>> "If you don't know what it is, don't poke it."
>> Ghost in the Shell
>>
>>
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