Dwayne points these out to us when they go on sale:
P-Star 25K50 Micro
https://www.pololu.com/product/3150

Dave


On 28 September 2016 at 08:31, Gordon Williams <gwilliams@ncf.ca> wrote:

> http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/30010119A.pdf
>
> The MPLAB Xpress Evaluation Board (DM164140) looks interesting at $10
> with free shipping (don't know where) with a PIC16F18855 on it.  They
> could have made it a lot more compact though, shame. Seems like it is
> one sided and the reverse side is not shown.  The programmer takes up
> one end of the board.
>
> Something to keep in mind.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gordon Williams
>
>
>
> On 16-09-28 01:16 AM, Chris Roper wrote:
> > The MPLab Xpress Development Board
> > http://www.microchip.com/mplab/mplab-xpress and GCBasic
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gcbasic/ make a good alternative.
> > The MikroBUS Expansion footprint has hundreds of board available too.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Gordon Williams <gwilliams@ncf.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I've used JAL  (http://www.casadeyork.com/jalv2/ ) for a number of
> large
> >> PIC projects in the past where I have made up my own PCB.
> >>
> >> JAL is something that I can get my head around and understand. It
> >> creates assembler code that is quite efficient without a lot of
> >> overhead, you can look at the asm code if you want or run it through a
> >> MPLAB sim to check timing or debugging, plus a number of other reasons=
..
> >> It is simple and maps well to the data sheets.
> >>
> >> C/C++ has too many ways to shoot yourself in the foot and get unintend=
ed
> >> consequences for my liking.  A lot of it just looks like gibberish too=
..
> >> Not to start a flame war.
> >>
> >> The USB Bit Whacker and the pyMCU are the kinds of things that I'm
> >> looking for, but too bad that they are $25!  I guess it is a volume
> >> thing and I'm not going to see anything in the Nano price range.
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >>
> >> Gordon
> >>
> >>
> >> On 16-09-27 09:34 PM, Neil wrote:
> >>> So what language are you planning to use?  Assembly?  Perhaps try
> >>> assembly on the Atmel chip?
> >>>
> >>> There is also something called Ardublock for the Arduino that's a
> visual
> >>> programming tool somewhat like App Inventor for Android ... cringe!
> >>>
> >>> Alternatively, this may be more expensive, but there's Python availab=
le
> >>> on the PIC here...
> >>> http://www.circuitsforfun.com/pymcu.html
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> -Neil.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 9/27/2016 8:28 PM, Gordon Williams wrote:
> >>>> Currently I'm working on a small project using an Arduino Nano. I lo=
ve
> >>>> the small form factor and the price of 3-4 dollars is great.
> >>>>
> >>>> I can't say that I like C or the Arduino language.  Is there somethi=
ng
> >>>> similar in size and cost with a PIC on it?  I haven't been able to
> find
> >>>> anything.
> >>>>
> >>>> Gordon Williams
> >>>>
> >>>>
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