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The development board, both simple and flexible, supports not only the PIC16F877A, but a wide variety of PIC16 and PIC18 devices. I still use the PICDEM 2 Plus to provide a rapid development platform to facilitate the development commercial applications.
If you are going to build your own dev board, why not design your own board ?
Copying other boards only gives you what they provide, not necessarily what you want or need.
Here is a very basic circuit for a 877A, why not design around that, get a basic program running on it, then add extra hardware to it as your experience grows.
If you are going to build your own dev board, why not design your own board ?
Copying other boards only gives you what they provide, not necessarily what you want or need.
Here is a very basic circuit for a 877A, why not design around that, get a basic program running on it, then add extra hardware to it as your experience grows.
You also need to consider what you get for capabilities of that board, and what is price of that journey.
I think that is best to invest money in good development board, or you can build some good but cost of parts and time + making big PCB ..... what if there is some tracks bugs,..... just look to implement LCD and GLCD with touch on it what will be price,... to build programmer, USB interface,.... :-?
In post #2 you have good advice.
In every job investments in good tools is good things, improvising with tools often give bad results. Why we buy commercial and tested instruments like multimeters ?
I think you are right, If time is the concern I should probably go with the per-developed and tested board. If money then I should build my own but in my case here both time and money are the concerns
You also need to consider what you get for capabilities of that board, and what is price of that journey.
I think that is best to invest money in good development board, or you can build some good but cost of parts and time + making big PCB ..... what if there is some tracks bugs,..... just look to implement LCD and GLCD with touch on it what will be price,... to build programmer, USB interface,.... :-?
In post #2 you have good advice.
In every job investments in good tools is good things, improvising with tools often give bad results. Why we buy commercial and tested instruments like multimeters ?
Thought time was of the essence ? - still not decided on a board ?
What are your requirements, what programmer do you want, what price are you thinking of ?
Assume you are you able to build it yourself, which give you a better understanding of the board and chip.
You can build a starter board with lcd a few leds and switches in an evening, doesn't have to be a pcb, my first two dev boards were on vero/strip board and they can look quiet good if constructed with some thought.
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