You may be interested in the ChipKit DP32 https://store.digilentinc.com/chipkit-dp32-dip-package-prototyping-microcon= troller-board/ You can also make up a Chipkit on a Breadboard or Strip Board easyly. http://caroper.blogspot.co.za/2013/06/this-will-be-home-for-my-pic32mx.html Cheers Chris On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Neil wrote: > I just completed a couple-week CRUNCH project for a local research lab. > I had to manipulate some servo motors over RS-485 with some sensors and > PID tuning. There was also some aluminum machining, and assembly of > motors/pullies/belts, etc. For speed, I decided to use a PIC32 on a > chipkit MAX32 board, with MPLABX and xc32. > > Soon after starting down that path, realizing I'd need to give the > customer some tunability and adjustment settings, and creating menus in > that short time frame would be difficult, I swapped over to using MPIDE > (ie: the chipkit arduino-like environment). This way the customer could > easily tweak and re-flash w/o needing a programming device. > > I must say that I was quite impressed with how fast I was able to put > this together in that environment. There was some considerable > performace hit from using "Serial.print" (mostly for debugging), but I > cleaned most of that up eventually. I'd like to consider this for other > one-off projects, but I need to find a lower-cost chipkit board. Not > seeing any clones of this, as with Arduinos. Considering all the other > low-cost dev boards out there (Arduino, ARM, TI Launchpads, etc), I > figure $20 would be a good price for a PIC32 dev board. > > If any of you are aware of good lower-cost alternatives I'd love to know. > > Cheers, > -Neil. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .