On 26 Feb 2008 at 19:57, Tony Duell wrote:
  Argh!. I grew up learning to design solutions to
problems, rather than
 throw microcontrollers at them in the hope they'd go away. 
 Aw, Tony, a little 8 pin PIC or an ATiny can do this with no
 additional active packages.  The algorithm can be tweaked with no
 component changes. 
 No _new_ components, but you still have to reprogram the microcontroller
 (which may involve pulling it from the board..). Personally, I'd rather
 change some R's and C's