Amicus is a multifunction development system inspired by the popular Arduino board, however, the Amicus board uses a Microchip PIC® microcontroller instead of an Atmel AVRtm type.
Comprehensive documentation and a helpful and friendly support environment, make using
Amicus18 an easy and enjoyable experience for beginners and seasoned programmers.
Forum Moderator Mackrakit (Dave) very kindly ported the Proton BASIC Compiler code over to PBP3 and modified the original AMicus18 docuemts for PBP3 users.
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Re: PIC temperature, when is it too hot
In all the years I've been using PICs I've NEVER had one get even slightly warm.
tumbleweed Today, 15:47They usually only pull a few 10's of mA's max, but I suppose if you had all the IO pins trying to drive too much...