Buy a simple PIC demoboard

Hi I've been wanting to buy a demoboard over 200 € urazos with examples including even in English on PIC. The demoboard that are looking for PIC12F, 16F and 18F, all 8 bits.

For now I am struck by some for PIC: EasyPIC v7:
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USB-PIC'School De Luxe:
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I want to know your opinions, suggestions, tips, etc.. Oddly enough, a demoboard saves lot of time, and especially you USB'PICSchool 16F886 has many examples of both ASM and in C.

A greeting.

Hi,

Its so much a personal choice of what you want from a development board.

You do not say what your particular needs are or what programming language you intend to persue.

You have selected two quite high end boards at high prices.

The Mikroe boards, just check how compatible they and the Mikro software is with MPlab.
Mikroe software has to be purchased.

The other board seems a little dear for what it is.

There are many other dev boards on the market, with English manuals and experiments, all at much lower prices.
Why pay hundered for lots of leds and switches you will seldom use.

Have a look at the Microchip Direct range of boards.
Olimex do a good few as well.
Ebay has many more, though needs careful selection.

Ever thought of building you own, starting with somthing simple and expanding it as your programming knowledge increases ?

MikroElektronika - Development tools, Compilers, Books
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Hi

Yes, it is very expensive. It only has examples in ASM, C and Flowcode v4. It has what I want basic, DS1720, RS232, DS1820, Clone PICkit 2, etc ...

I've been since 2008 wondering whether or not it is worth buying a demoboard, I need days to get to my house with his book complements aprte bought for 25 €.

I thought about making it myself and I will in some circuits PCB my way.



Thanks for your opinion.

Hi,

That Multiboard also looks quite a complicated set up, you would have to do quiet a lot of building work just to get something to run.

I was suggesting you start with something much more modest like a pic chip and a led to make a simple led flasher, progessing up to seven segment and lcd displays etc.

These can be readily build on a breadboard, once you have proven the circuit you can then always hardwire or pcb it.

Think you are saying you want to use the BASIC programming language, that is not that popular and you will have to look around to find any tutorials / examples.
Have a look at this site Swordfish - Modular BASIC for PIC® Microcontrollers

Long term you might be better considering Assembly or C which is much more supported.

Here are two popular Pic tutorial sites for Asembly and C, both with circuit details.

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Nigel's PIC Tutorial Page

Hi

The language I use is the ASM, sometimes C. I do not like Basic and thank you very much for the link.

Greeting.

easypic looks good, I think it should be enough to keep you busy for some time...