[geeks] Geeky Valentine's day card

[Amy]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Dave Kimmel wrote:

> Well, I've gone and done it.  I made a Valentine's day card in a fashion
> that only someone who has way too much time on their hands would do.  Ok,
> it only took me about 3 hours to get it all right, but still.
>
> Its not a card, per se, its a circuit board with a 2-character (15
> segments per) LED display module which scrolls a nice Valentine's day
> greeting for my girlfriend.  In addition to the display module there are
> some resistors, a PIC16F84A microcontroller, a resonator, and a voltage
> regulator.

very creative :) i hope she'll appreciate the time you put into it. i once
made a mouse out of old pc boards (an animal mouse, complete with solder
tail/whiskers and stained-glass ears) and bill stuffed it in his
desk--squashed the tail which was originally curled up as a pencil
holder--one night while he wasn't paying attention. :)


--a