> Mainly I'm talking simply about a 16f877 (or similar - just need a PIC 
> with a reasonable clock speed and most of the peripherals - something 
> else is ok) compatible socket on a board with a crystal oscillator and a 
> ICD connector with simple connectivity to an RJ11 jack, and possibly a 
> 7805 or similar.   Push buttons, Pots, LCD, RS232 transciever, etc. etc. 
> etc. are nice, but a lot of the boards that have them have the 
> irritating property that they are hardwired to the PIC and require 
> slicing of PCB Traces and careful soldering iron work to extract those 
> signals when you need them for something other than the board's concept 
> of what they should be used for.  So, if the board has those addons, I 
> need them to be easily disconnectable/reconnectable.
>   
I was looking for something like this about a year ago and couldn't find 
anything.
So I decided to build one myself. I used it now for about a year with 
very great success.
Switching between 10 applications on 1 day is no problem (yes you need 
that to test compilers ;-)
At the moment I'm designing a PCB for it,
this will have only a few extra extensions: a fet to switch off the 
12/24 V and 4 dwarf connectors
(sorry Wouter, less main boards, but maybe more dwarf boards ;-)
I'm not selling anything, but the PCB will be published on the web.
See for the mainboard
http://oase.uci.kun.nl/~mientki/data_www/pic/projects/rapid_prototyping/prototyping_board.html
and for a short overview of the modules
http://oase.uci.kun.nl/~mientki/data_www/pic/projects/rapid_prototyping/rapid_prototyping_devices.html

Stef Mientki


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