I have to admit I have been using mostly ESP8266 devices lately and I don=92t have one of these boards to actually test. However, could it be that they thought they were sending these boards to seasoned professionals not high school students and did not expect that target group to be interested in a simple blink an LED demo? I personally have never found such simple demos to be of any value. I have made hex files with my MikroC compiler and dropped them into a PICKit3. This sounds a lot easier than that. Allen -----Original Message----- From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Blick Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 10:14 PM To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Subject: Re: [PIC] RE: Xpress PIC16F18446 Evaluation Board "Let's buy the heart of Arduino, and then kill it" "Here's our alternative. You think you hate it now, but wait 'til you try to make it blink an LED, it won't" Groupthink. Seems legit. Big bonuses to top management later this year? BB ________________________________________ From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu on behalf of James Burkart=20 Sent: Friday, July 13, 2018 6:24 PM To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Subject: Re: [PIC] RE: Xpress PIC16F18446 Evaluation Board Is microchip trying to compete in the Arduino market with this board? Are they trying to win people over with this? On Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 5:57 PM Jan-Erik S=F6derholm < jan-erik.soderholm@telia.com> wrote: > Yes, fully agree. They *could* have posted something that was possible > to build directly and download. A simple blink-a-LED for the on-board > LED... > --=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 --=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 .