PIC development board with CANbus?

[Borisw37]

Hello,
I'm looking for an inexpensive development board with Microchip PIC (or dsPIC) and a CANbus transceiver.
Ones sold directly by Microchip are a bit pricey (DV250501 is $165, DV251001 is $239).
It needs to have a PIC that supports CAN not SPI_to_CAN type of interface.

Any thoughts?

Thank you,

Boris.

 

[bigdogguru]

Have you considered the following:

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If you are a student Microchip offers 25% off all their development tools, all that is required is an academic email address.

Also keep checkout microchip direct as they offer large discounts on development tools, the specials change monthly:

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An excellent development board currently on sale is the **broken link removed**, I personally own several.

With the discount the Explorer 16 would cost $103 and is CAN interface capable with a **broken link removed** or build your own from inexpensive Prototype PICtail Plus Daughter Board.

Keep an eye on eBay as I regularly see used development boards sell for a fraction of the original price.

You might also consider building your own, as the schematics, BOM and PCB files are typically available for free download from the Microchip Website.

Even breadboarding a PIC based CAN development board is fairly straight forward.


BigDog