Development board / tools to purchase

liak · Post by **liak** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 7:55 pm

Dear all,

I have been given a budget of USD500, to decide on buying some development boards in 2 days time. I wonder if anyone has any good suggestion of which to buy? I have seen mikroelectronika's EasyPIC5. But not entirely sure of its features or any other models avaiable. I know it boils down to what you need in the end.

I hope to be able to use it on:
1. 18Fs PDIP PIC
2. and also low voltage PIC18Fs such as 18F26K20

Further more:
3. But I am not sure if the criteria (2) is fulfillable by EasyPIC5.
4. Is there any other dev boards offered by any other companies that users of this forum that is familiar with?
5. What other things do you people look for before buying one?

I am currently doing everything without the luxury of these dev boards, so kind of naive on the features and advantages of these tools.

Please offer some help.
Thanks.

Regards,
Liak

CS · Post by CS » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:16 am

Hi liak,

I'm also using the mikroelektronika EasyPIC boards since Version 3.
But I have to admit, that I missed some things and so I searched for another board.

On EBay- Germany (www.ebay.de) you can search for the following number and you'll see a good board.

130223006000

Good luck.

Christian

CharlieM · Post by **CharlieM** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:37 am

I too world go with the Easypic boards.

xnederlandx · Post by **xnederlandx** » Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:00 am

EasyPic5 does not support low voltage devices,

It is still my preference for a development board.