18 pin PIC Development Board

I have long been playing with Microchip PICs but have always made do without some form of development board. To that end I have designed a basic board that I was hoping to get some input for. I haven't yet made this board as I am waiting for some kit to turn up to finish it off and make it, however I thought others may be in a position to use or modify it.

Step 1 Project requirements

The requirements for me were to have 8 LEDs and switches that were not tied to a port or pin, but had jumpers to allow full selection of which port/pin to connect to. Optional use of an external crystal, so the option of using a PICs internal RC oscillator was possible. Finally a ICSP header so that the PIC wouldn't need removal to be programmed.

The board needed to be single sided as I don't have the facilities or patience to go double!

The ICSP header circuit was used from Best Microcontroller Projects.

Comments

[robot1398]

do i just copy paste the code to the programming software

[tony54]

Would you change the schematic so that when I click on it it zooms in enough to be able to read the pin numbers or add a much larger copy of the schematic so that I can read the pin numbers or add it to another page ?

Can you tell me what program created the files & what program is needed to view them ?

I don't have a program that can view SCH or BRD files and I don't know what program uses those extensions. I've heard there are several different ones that use SCH but ORCAD is the only one I know for sure and it's over $1000 program. Is there a freeware viewer for these files that can be printed or at lease viewed and I'll copy & paste it to a program to print it out.

Can you add it in a GIF or PDF format so I can view it & print it ?

[tmwaddel]

I was just looking for RS part 378-6729 and wasn't able to find it. Does RS stand for Radio Shack or is it another electronic supply store? Thanks.

[smartroad]

Sorry it is http://www.rs-online.com/index.html not sure what the RS stands for, I think it used to be Radio Spares, but not sure!

[tony54]

Main,BRD Main.SCH don't download the right file, it downloads a TMP file instead. Please fix it or add a GIF of the PCB & schematics. Thanks for posting this project.

[smartroad]

Just need to change the TMP extension to either BRD to SCH depending on which you have downloaded. It seems to be something to do with the way Instructables stores files. I'll look into a more permanent fix :)

[roadieflip]

This is a cracking idea... I received my arduino a couple of weeks back, and i think I'll make a button/pot/led shield with jumpers to select them instead of using breadboards... I'll post something when I'm done. Thanks for the inspiration.