Quote Originally Posted by chuck View Post
You could try this one from here home made and you can just keep adding and adding to it,
Nice project, but personally the time taken to etch, drill and build the boards IMO makes the easyPIC range of boards more appealing. Plus if you need additional modules you can get everything form a simple connector board to wi-fi boards, through to a colour TFT touchscreen

http://www.mikroe.com/eng/categories...essory-boards/

If you are looking for something different, with similar but different options (such as built in SD card reader, RTC clock and stepper motor drivers) take a look at the QL200 boards (priced about the same, but you may get stung with import duty) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/QL200-PIC-Deve...item3a598ea447

I've not used one so can't vouch for the quality.

Don't get me wrong, breadboarding has it's place, but sometimes when you are building complex projects it becomes very hard to trace where all the jumpers go (unless you're DT and then it's a work of art). My recent project used 4 DS18B20's, 4 x 20 LCD - 4 pots, DS1307 RTC, RS232 serial comms, and 6 triacs with associated discrete components - this would of been quite a busy breadboard even with just these parts. The only part that was breadboarded was the 4 sensors, external SSR and the RTC as I needed to split the connections to one header



I Having developed the project to a level where it was workable, I prototyped to stripboard



And then after a few further enhancements took the schematic and produced a small batch of PCBs, which resulted in the second prototype below



However the bottom line is that it's all down to personal choice. Hope my comments have helped you in making your choice of where to start