Development Board Recomendations ???

[vacpress]

i would be very interested in a board that has everything the easy pic 3/4 has, but with more routing flexability.. this dosent have to be a major cost inflation over their design... i just needs to be a bit different, and possibly not use PC style jumpers, but instead use 2 sets of female header and jumper wires or something... i mean... i really want this board.. but i dont want it to end up being a terminal for some 40 pin pic i never take out of it..

it seems great for education or something...

this doohickey i see with the screw terminals... this just extends a port to 8 screw terminals?

sorta OK... i mean.. wouldnt it have been Cooool if it was possible to have the 2 LCDs at least on different ports?

oh well. it still looks like a rad board.. many less 'is it this or that' problems to face durring debugging... i guess you develop the project on the board and then change the code for the actual device... i dunno... ~$150 can buy alot of other neat stuff if you allready have the essentials of what the easypic has...
carry on :_)

[muddy0409]

Hi Vac,
Did you have a look at the Microbyte board I mentioned above?
That would address most of your queries!!

[vacpress]

sorta.. eeexcept.. almost twice as expensive with marginal differences. the easypic board has some key features for me.. the usb port for working with 4550s, my main interest, as well as the usb programmer... this board looks nice as well.. i think i will stick with breadboards and my $25 carrier board i added terminal strips to and a usb port and other various common goodies.. for a total cost of like $40...

[muddy0409]

Yep, fair enough.
Can't argue with that!

[malc-c]

Came across another board, on a slightly smaller scale than the EasyPIC boards, but a lot more expensive



http://www.msebilbao.com/tienda/prod...roducts_id=341

[tico]

Just wanted to say thanks for all of your input. I ordered the ezPic4 and its in began toying with it and must say it has alot of nice feature modular expansion and a built in programmmer.

Thanks for all your advice and guidance.

[mister_e]

Sweet!

I never used ANY development board before i decide to buy EasyPic 4. Of course for specific project i'm not going to use it anyway. But for short term, fast test and/or development it's really THA right thing to use.

To test forum user code.. it's even better and save me tons of time

Enjoy!

EDIT: if you want to launch the Programmer within MicroCode Studio, here's the command line you need

-pPIC$target-device$ -f$hex-filename$ -e -w