July 6, 2011

picChess using a DSPIC33F128MC804 Microcontroller

Arthur Benemann who is an Electrical Engineering student sent in his picChess game which uses a DSPIC33F128MC804 Microcontroller. The PIC based game can communicate using a speaker to talk and a monitor to show the game board and chess pieces.  If Chess wasn’t enough Arthur also added Conway’s game of life and a music player to the system “For the hardware the main challenge is to select a processor with power to