I have started a project using a circuit that has 8 dip switches that represent a binary number. I need to be able to replace these dip switches with a microcontroller and a small LCD screen. The screen will display the decimal number 1000 and will have two buttons for incrementing and decrementing that number. Each time the number is changed, the dip switches need to be changed to represent the number. It would also be nice if it had a little watch battery to save the number when it's powered off.
This seems like it would be a relatively simple project, but I have never programmed a PIC chip before. I am an experienced windows programmer in C# though, so I don't think it would be very hard for me to do. I don't really know much about microcontrollers, what chip do you think would be the cheapest and most effective for this application? Do I even need to program a chip? Is there already something that does this?
This seems like it would be a relatively simple project, but I have never programmed a PIC chip before. I am an experienced windows programmer in C# though, so I don't think it would be very hard for me to do. I don't really know much about microcontrollers, what chip do you think would be the cheapest and most effective for this application? Do I even need to program a chip? Is there already something that does this?