Has anyone given much thought to posilble designs for a digital readout system built around PICs? I have been thinking about it a bit. I even went so far as building a small binery encoder and breadboarding a PIC to read the encoder and count steps. In my experiment I used LEDs as a readout, but that would not be satisfactory in the shop. IMHO an old PC running DOS could provide all the display and control functions fairly cheaply. |