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Why not a solderless breadboard?
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If you get a small solderless breadboard and attach it to the board you have here, you can use jumpers from the sockets you've placed beside the PIC to conect them to an easier prototyping section.
Show us the other side, we may have more comments about that.
If you get a small solderless breadboard and attach it to the board you have here, you can use jumpers from the sockets you've placed beside the PIC to conect them to an easier prototyping section.
I did contrusted them in breadboard..then I transfer them so as to become a development board that is rigid.Oh ya..Good idea.Get a small breadboard and attached them to the space on the board..Thanks
Backside of the board.I know it's messy
No problems. I was just thinking that it might have been veroboard with long conductors left connected.
What I'd advise you to do is to get a piece of plastic the same size as your board and place it under the matrix board. Then use standoffs or something similar to make legs for it.
If you do that then you can put it down on your work surface without fear that a component or wire you've left lying around is going to short something out.
What I'd advise you to do is to get a piece of plastic the same size as your board and place it under the matrix board. Then use standoffs or something similar to make legs for it.
If you do that then you can put it down on your work surface without fear that a component or wire you've left lying around is going to short something out.
My first thought was, "what can someone do with that?". How are you planning to program it? Your question, "any other easier language?" makes me wonder what your experience is.
If the PIC16F887 is what you want to use then you can self-teach yourself very quickly with a kit. The PICKit2 Debug Express from Microchip comes complete with a PIC16F887. The kit comes with some easy lessons. You can buy it directly from Microchip for about $50. I would recommend that.
If the PIC16F887 is what you want to use then you can self-teach yourself very quickly with a kit. The PICKit2 Debug Express from Microchip comes complete with a PIC16F887. The kit comes with some easy lessons. You can buy it directly from Microchip for about $50. I would recommend that.
Your first thought makes me wonder what experience YOU'VE had.
Final Product after add some stand and case for it for easy development
Any suggestion or comment please feel free to share
p/s To be honest, thanks to steve for giving me the idea of using breadboard for easy development
Vick, I built a board which looks like yours over 20 years ago for a 80C86. The lack of a ground plane caused such high impedance that the signal edges were ringing, causing multiple interrupts and all other sorts of problems. I solved it by making a crude ground plane from copper tape backed with plastic on the bottom of the board. I soldered each return pin of each IC to this plane. No, it wasn't perfect but the ringing went away and the board worked. This would be easy to do with you board. Good luck.
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I can't even remember seeing a commercial product using a microcontroller that has a ground plane.
PIC outputs are essentially current limited, and while this makes it safe to simply connect a LED to them, I would always use a resistor.
You don't want to get into bad habits.
PIC outputs are essentially current limited, and while this makes it safe to simply connect a LED to them, I would always use a resistor.
You don't want to get into bad habits.
