mdredmond@CHARTER.NET wrote : > Hi All, > > Considering the purchase of a PIC lab/development board. You > know, one of those little boards with LCDs, switches, LEDs, > yada yada yada... > > Have considered Micro-Engineering's LAB-X1 and Microchip's PICDEM-4. > > Does anyone have any input on these two boards - or > suggestions for other boards I might look at? Hi. Well, if you need some of those include-all-boards, this might not be an option, but anyway... :-) In fact I'm currently compiling a "package" in cooperation with the local technical school. The reason I begun with this (one of them at least) was that I found out about the "Dwarf boards" from Wouter van Ooijen. See : http://www.voti.nl/dwarf/index.html. In my very personal optinion, these boards have some nice pros compared with the larger all-included typ of boards : - Reasonable price. - Modular, buy the functionallity you need. - The base MPU board, is so simple that you can use one as the target environment in your project. - If a module "breaks", it is simpe to replace. I'm looking at the DB016 processor baord, b.t.w... Best Regards Jan-Erik. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics