You, too, can have your very own vanity Arduino clone - I do

[dhouston]

Why not a PIC based board ?

There seem to be a surfeit of PIC based boards, Amicus18, XINO, the one you have referenced and, I suspect, many, many more.

As I told Bruce Reynolds in another thread, I seldom choose PICs for anything beyond 8-pins (or an occasional 16F88) and have long preferred ZBasic for bigger projects. Anyways, at 70 years of age and in ill health (my sell by date passed about 3 years ago), I'm sort of stuck in my ways.

I am working with XINO on their PIC, PICAXE versions and am designing some shields that can be used by all.