I forgot all about CIRCUITCELLAR
Steve Ciarcia used to write for byte back in its hey days.
He is a excellent author as is the magazine.
CIRCUITCELLAR
By Engineers, For Engineers
This month feature articles.
◊ 'Net-Enabled Alarm Clock
◊ Internet Information Retrieval: Target And Display Web Site Content
◊ Launch Control: Build A Coil Gun Controller And Launcher
◊ Card Connection: Magnetic Card Data Decoding And Transmission
◊ Create A Modbus Slave
◊ PSoC Design Techniques (Part 1): Build An Eight-Channel Mixer
◊ Sound Effects Processing
This article caught my eye.
From July 2008 issue and online for free
’Net-Enabled Alarm Clock
Second Place Microchip 2007 Design Contest — !
by DJ Delorie
Unlike old-school mechanical alarm clocks that you have to set manually, DJ’s Internet-connected alarm clock provides three primary features: automatic time setting on power-up, streaming MP3 music, and remote management. The PIC24FJ64-based clock is connected to an ENC28J60 Ethernet chip, an MP3 decoder chip, an organic LED graphical display, and a 24LC512 EEPROM for storage. p. 12
Keywords: Alarm, clock, MP3, PIC24FJ64, ENC28J60, OLED, streaming, Ethernet, SPI, STA013, ADC, time, SNTP