> Procrastinator club anyone ?

Since nothing had been heard over this time I for one assumed your problem was solved.

This year marks six years since I started playing with PICs and PBP. Three hundred designs later (averaging one a week - and if it had a PIC in it, then it was driven by PBP) and close to a million PICs shipped, I have to admit that whether folks found the products useful or consigned them to land-fill that I really don't care.

In all that time, I've never had a customer return that was attributable to design, manufacturing or component defect. I put this down in the main that some of the products are large and heavy >2000kg and Mr Postman just can't fit them through the letterbox. But if they end up useful as boat-anchors, then that's still a success in my book.

What I can say with absolute certainty is that the PBP component works - as do the PICs. That leaves a failure to understand hardware, designs, not reading Datasheets or Manuals or defective logic in coding. A look on the kind of posts on this forum tells you that this accounts for 95% of help requests. PICs only need three things to make them work, POWER, RESET and CLOCK (OK, and a half-sensible program too). I don't know your Development Board, but if you can't even get a simple LED to blink in order to verify that those three conditions to make the PIC run have been met, or have the knowledge to determine which of those three are causing you grief, then chucking everything in a drawer and concentrating on watching Bonsai grow is the way to go. That may be a little strong language for this festive season (even if it is intended in jest), but seriously, PICs will do one of two things for you, they'll either make you very rich, or cause you to lose all your hair. I'd rather everyone was in the former category than the latter - and the secret to making everything work is contained in this paragraph.