I bought EasyPIC4s from Circuit-Ed a coupe of years ago for classroom instruction and they have been excellent. They're loaded with peripheral options, discrete LEDs, 7 segment LEDs, character LCD, graphical LCD, DS1820, switches, potentiometers, etc, etc. All of the I/O pins are available on external headers; the board takes just about every DIP 12F, 16F, and 18F PIC; and the on-board programmer is fast and reliable. My only complaint is that the built-in ICD (debugger) works only with the MikroE high level languages and not with assembly. Even so, they are by far my favorite dev board, Andrew ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ---- On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Larry Reynolds (lreynol4@erols.com) wrote: Greetings all, I'm getting the bug to do something useful and interesting with a PIC device. I have ideas and plans... But first, I need to get up to speed with some real world devices and coding. has anyone here in the US ordered and received an EasyPIC system???? If so, how long did it take to get it and were you satisfied with it. Thank you for your input here?? Larry -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist