May 23rd, 2009
PIC16F876 development board
This is just a board I made to work with at school because normally I would not build anything on pic. I just wanted to show once again, that using the photo etching technique and some effective component placing you can obtain really nice results wether your building trough hole or SMT. The board has a quad op-amp for inputing and outputing analog signals and a max232 to provide a serial interface. It will be mainly used to gather data from sensors and send it on the serial interface to a computer.
May 25th, 2009 at 3:24 am
What is it about Microchips that you dont like?
May 25th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Hi Chris, It’s not that I don’t like something about that. It’s just that I started working with Atmel, and the community and support was great. But with Microchip I wanted to test this board after making it, and I had trouble finding a C compiler. For many people this is not a problem, but once you get started on something as a hobyist, you usually stick to that.