Cheers Mark!
I really love the TAPLFO. Great work by Electric Druid! But overall, the PIC chips have very limited uses..
Besides the TAPLFO, the guitar-MIDI and a couple of PIC-based tuners there is not much for the guitarplayer.
Still, a pre-programmed TAPLFO is almost as expensive as a PICKIT 2.. so I think it's worth it. :)
Slackers dsPIC project seems very cool though.
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=106741.0It's still more like a proof of concept though and uses expensive parts
But if you want to get your hand wet with the microcontrollers I recommend the chip that Harald is using in his tap-tempo circuits.
A programmer for those are much cheaper:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/310506909410?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649/ Fredrik
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