> You may have guessed, I'm not very patient, so I've already drawn up a
> checklist / shopping list for my introduction to PIC / electronics.  If
> someone would just check this list briefly it would be very much
> appreciated; I don't want to be put off by spending a chunk of money on
> worthless equipment!

Add a few 40-pin *round-pin* ('turned', 'high-quality') IC sockets. Put your
PIC in the socket, and plug that assembly into your breadboard. When one of
the pins breaks (it will, after some time) you have lost a socket, not a
PIC.

For an easy start you might take a PIC 16f628: with suitable setting this
PIC can run off its internal oscillator, so there is one thing less to worry
about. But if you want 20 MHz get a 20 MHz crystal and two 20 or 22 pF
capacitors.

Check out www.voti.nl/wisp628 for first-time blink-a-led test programs
(otherwise when nothing seems to work you must also wonder whether your
program is wrong, besides worryng about your hardware and your programmer ;)

Wouter van Ooijen
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Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: http://www.voti.nl
Jal compiler, Wisp programmer, WLoader bootloader, PICs kopen

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