‘Cause man, I sure don’t.

On the other hand, I did receive some beautiful PIC16F’s today from Microchip.

 

Unfortunately, Travis also informed us on the bus back from Plexus that there is no C compiler for the 16F series, only for the 18F and 24F’s. Probably because the 16F series uses an accumulator architecture with a limited 8-level stack, I guess.

But seriously. Damn. Why couldn’t we have paid more attention when ordering the things? Now we’re either going to have to program in assembly or sample new parts and wait another week. Crap.

On the upshot, the PICs came in this awesome ESD bag with a ziplock-esque zipper!