The first time I heard about PIC microcontroller was during the last winter holidays. Staying back in my college, when almost all others had gone home to enjoy their holidays, Athul, Sanesh,Vishnu (my friends who stayed back with me) and I had learned a lot. Well better to say – got familiar with loads of new stuff and learned a little bit of Python language.
The First Encounter
We had been tramping the corridors of our college not knowing what to do when we came across some seniors in our Dept. working on their projects.The first week we had been advised to get to know all the labs that are there in our college, talk to faculties and venture into every nook and corner we could find. We came across the “Electronics Lab” where they were working.
‘Do we just barge in and start asking them questions about what they were doing and if they could tell us something that we could also do?’ To tell the truth none of us knew. We were totally confused. One would have thought-‘Bah! Get familiar with labs, Faculties, Seniors doing project. So simple!!’ So we messed around the lab door for sometime peeking in and pushing each other saying,”You go first!” “No! You go…”
Eventually we mustered enough courage to go in and ask them. They were really friendly and it took us only a matter of some minutes to be at ease with them. They were working on a PIC alarm project using-what they told us- PIC microcontroller. First ever time we heard of it. Once we figured out what it basically is, the term started coming before us frequently – On posters of Robotics workshops, then we saw it being used for the blinking ASTHRA banner, and then on the workshop exclusively conducted for this microcontroller- PICTRIS’11. This would be our first step in learnig PIC coding and its use in building circuits.
Everyday Mischief 