Steve Murphy wrote:

> Sorry, it's late and I forgot [PIC] tag in subject.
>
> Steve Murphy wrote:
>
>> On the back of this month's Nuts and Volts magazine is an ad by 
>> Parallax for what looks like a really amazing $150 development board 
>> for BASIC Stamps. (I'm not affiliated with Parallax in any way).
>>
>> (Here: http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=28138)
>> (More detailed line drawing here: 
>> http://www.parallax.com/dl/docs/prod/boards/ParallaxPDB.PDF)
>>
>> This board has sockets available for BS1 and BS2 modules. It has a 
>> large solderless breadboard at its center and lots of well-conceived 
>> peripherals on it including: USB or Serial for chip programming, 
>> power supply, headers giving two-deep access to all I/O pins, an I2C 
>> RTC, Extra serial port with RS-232 level converter, RJ-11 port, pulse 
>> generator (1Hz, 10Hz, 100Hz, 1KHz), 8 pulled-up M/C switches, 8 
>> pulled-up DIP switches, L293D driver, on-board audio amp and speaker, 
>> 2 10K Pots, HD44780-compatible LCD port, 5 7-segment blue LEDs, 16 
>> blue surface mount LEDs. I really want one of these, but I just can't 
>> give up C for a BASIC Stamp.
>>
>> This one board really covers all the bases for about 99% of the kinds 
>> of projects I can imagine doing. I want one for regular PICs.
>>
>> Has anyone tried using this board with standard PICs?
>> Has anyone seen a board this good for standard PICs?
>> Would it be feasible to create a PIC "carrier board" that could use 
>> most or all of the functionality of this board?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>  --Steve.
>>
>>
Couldn't you just plug the Pic into the solderless bread board?

David


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