Hand held pin pointer question

[Tibuck19]

The 12F1840 was chosen for size (8 pins), fast internal oscillator, ADC, and sufficient memory. It only has a 10 bit ADC, a 12 bit would be better. There are Pics with 12b ADCs in larger packages.

But just for a pin pointer it should be more then ok right? , And you already did the write up for the PL-4.

[waltr]

I am using a PIC12F1840 in the Teemo's detector -ferrite stick for a pin-pointer.
Works great.

This is still a very good PIC with great features, fast internal oscillator and small 8-pin package (as Carl states). You do need the PICKit-3 programmer.
If you can write the code look into the 12F1501 & 12F1572 PICs with 8-pins.
I use the 12F1501 for the VCO on my HammerHead since it has ADCs and an NCO (makes audio generation very easy and I posted source code in the HH II thread "My take on the HH2").

There are lots and lots of different PICs. So many that it can be difficult to find and pick one to use.

[Tibuck19]

I am using a PIC12F1840 in the Teemo's detector -ferrite stick for a pin-pointer.
Works great.

This is still a very good PIC with great features, fast internal oscillator and small 8-pin package (as Carl states). You do need the PICKit-3 programmer.
If you can write the code look into the 12F1501 & 12F1572 PICs with 8-pins.
I use the 12F1501 for the VCO on my HammerHead since it has ADCs and an NCO (makes audio generation very easy and I posted source code in the HH II thread "My take on the HH2").

There are lots and lots of different PICs. So many that it can be difficult to find and pick one to use.

Fantastic, Thank you for the Added info!