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Guide in choosing good overall PIC dev board
Our department getting grant to buy development board and I do not want them to buy same old FPGA board which we have 100 of and only 10 uses so far.
Need your enormous experiences in helping make good choice of development boards.
Friends with me interested in learning following PIC parts:- PIC18F4550
- PIC18F46J50
- PIC18F46J53
- PIC18F47J53
- PIC24FJ256DA206
- PIC24FJ256GB106
- PIC24FJ256GB210In time we will also be interesting in dsPIC and PIC32 but all these right now together too much load, so beginnning only above.
I see Development Tools Home
Of all this the Explorer 16 100-pin board is interesting.
At $130 Explorer 16 Development Board has the nice option of interchangeable Plug-In Modules.
I assuming this means we can make our own PCB with the above PICs also and just pluggin them as Plug-In Modules?
Also finding the following boards, but confused if it possible to replace the PIC already present on the board?-
$65 PIC24E USB Starter Kit
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$60 MPLAB Starter Kit for PIC24H
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$60 MPLAB Starter Kit for PIC24FDevelopment board from Microchip is recommended as easy to make dean agree, budget of around $200 or less per board
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