Hi Steve Interesting I was looking at this board myself afew days ago. Certainly = appears to have everything a beginner like me needs to start of with and = is affordable even through the exchange rate. thanks for the tip. Dave Smith Cape Town South Africa ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Steve Mercer=20 To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.=20 Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:00 AM Subject: Re: [PIC]: Mikroelektronica EasyPic2 I have one of these - best buy I ever made. Delivery time to=20 Australia was about a week. I did a lot of research on educational boards before putting my money=20 towards this board. This is the most professional and fully featured=20 board I found and the price is excellent. The quality of the board is awesome and it is extremely easy to use.=20 All you need is a USB cable (included) and it is up and running (No=20 external power supply required but if you want to you can use an=20 external supply). PICFlashUSB is the application you use to program=20 via the USB cable. Mikroelektronica also produce software (A version of Basic and=20 Pascal). This is a very new product but is being expanded/developed=20 on a daily basis. The Basic has just been upgraded to include a=20 programmer so you don't even need to leave your development=20 environment. The company is extremely responsive to feature requests. As you can tell, I am a very happy camper. I am not affiliated in any=20 way with this company - just a satisfied customer. Best Regards Steve >I'm starting now with mcu's, and I just ordered the above kit from=20 >mikroelektronica. Anybody has anything to say? Delivery time,=20 >quality of the kit, usability, etc. >It seems that it comes with a USB programmer too, I'll have to check=20 >when it arrives. _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist