Quote Originally Posted by AngelInTheNight View Post
Well first of all hi guys. I'd like to just say this now I have never done anything with PIC chips however when my computer teacher mentioned them I thought it would be cool for my senior project to be programed with a PIC chip
The project itself is here: http://www.instructables.com/id/turn...biking-jacket/ However I'm going to be building my own board and like I said earlier I'll be using a PIC chip to program the LEDs to flash.
To be honest something like that doesn't need the investment of a PIC, programmer and all the associated software such as PBP. You could do this with a simple NE555 timer in astable mode and a couple of transistors.