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>It has a PIC16F84 and some other popular low end micros and you can't blow >anything up!! This is not really related to those wanting to experiment with PICs, but there is a package called "crocodile clips" available which is a spice type emulator for electronic circuits. It has all sorts of nifty bits in it including digital elements, as well as things like leds. Some of the guys at a club I go to have been using it to design some control hardware as they learn electronics (or is that the other way round). You can definitely "blow things up" using this package. If you pass too much current through a led it glows and the glow gets brighter until it catches "fire" and smokes it. makes an interesting demonstration of how things can go wrong for the uninitiated trying to wire up circuits. If I remember correctly it is an offshoot of a package that seems to be designed to model chemical reactions for high school use. Search for "crocodile clips" to find the distributor. For UK folk I'm told it costs about GBP30 at Maplins. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email spam_OUTlistservTakeThisOuTmitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body