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Look at a Project for a Newbie

Hi Group,

Im looking at a Project to keep me out of trouble on a night . Heres what I would like to do:

Firstly to learn about Pic Programming and hopefully use this to:

Build a Project which will have either a Cat5 Network Connection and a Web Browser on it, or a Serial interface to connect to a PC, This will Monitor in 3 Rooms, the Temeratures and if there has been a Loss of Power. If the Temperature gets to Hot or To cold, or if there was a loss of power My project would either Ring a Mobile and a voice would say what condition we had, or send a SMS. Idelly a Small LCD display in each room would tell me the Temperature.

I would also like to be able to Monitor the Temperature and Power from A PC Serial Connection or Web Browser in real time, with graphs

I Know the basics about Electronics and am also an intermediate programmer, with Visual Basic.Net

I don`t have any worries about learning new things!

Any Links or advise would be appriciated

Many Thanks Si

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Newbie!
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You have things backwards. First itemize the requirements, THEN select a processor or something. I assure you will not select PIC.

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Bryan Hackney

I agree, with such an ambitious project, you need a more powerful uC that can address more RAM & ROM to be sitting at the central. The PIC or amtel might be used to talk to the central doing smaller jobs like displaying temp or monitoring the temp. You also need to select a way to communicate between them e.g. X10 or rs232.

I have a similar project but I am building them up from the bottom. First get all the building blocks ready and slowly build up the system.

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Allen

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