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Mini breakout board for PIC16F88/628A/1827/1847 are back in stock at Tindie

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More mini breakout boards for 18-pin PIC16F series microcontrollers are now available as DIY kits on Tindie.

Key features:

  • On board Reset switch and decoupling capacitor
  • High quality PCB (manufactured from OSH Park)
  • Easily plug into a breadboard
  • On board ceramic resonator (20MHz)
  • ICSP header for PICKit2/3 connection
  • All 18 pins of the microcontroller are broken out to a breadboard friendly 0.1″ pitch header

Mini PIC breakout board

You can buy this as a DIY kit for $8.50 on Tindie.

Revised version of the PIC12F microcontrollers breakout board

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The 12F series of PIC microcontrollers are handy little 8-pin devices designed for small embedded applications that do not require too many I/O resources, and where small size is advantageous. These applications include a wide range of everyday products such as hair dryers, electric toothbrushes, rice cookers, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, and blenders. Despite their small size, the PIC12F series microcontrollers offer interesting features including wide operating voltage, internal programmable oscillator, 4 channels of 10-bit ADC, on-board EEPROM memory, on-chip voltage reference, multiple communication peripherals (UART, SPI, and I2C), PWM, and more. This is a revised version of the previous PIC12F development board and is designed for fast and easy development of standalone applications using PIC12F microcontrollers. It features an on-board regulated +5V power supply, header connectors to access I/O pins, an ICSP header for programming, a reset circuit, and a small prototyping area for placing additional components.

PIC12F microcontroller mini development board

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More PIC16F628A/PIC16F84A/PIC16F88/PIC16F1847 breakout board kits are available on Tindie

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The 18-pin PIC16F series microcontrollers are still very popular among hobbyists and beginners because of their compact size, low cost, and simplicity. The PIC16F1847 is the latest release in this series and is equipped with lot more peripherals and enhanced features than its predecessors. This breakout board provides all the basic elements that are required to get you going with your next project using PIC16F1847 or its predecessors, including PIC16F628A, PIC16F88, PIC16F84A, and PIC16F1827. More details of this board are found here: http://embedded-lab.com/blog/?p=5625

PIC16F1847 breakout board

You can buy the breakout board kit with one PIC16F1847 microcontroller included for $13.00. Here’s the buying link on Tindie: PIC16F1847 breakout board

The key features of PIC16F1847 microcontroller are summarized here.

  • Enhanced Mid-range Core with 49 Instruction, 16 Stack Levels
  • 14 KB of Flash Program Memory with self read/write capability, 1KB of RAM, 256 bytes of EEPROM
  • Internal 32MHz oscillator
  • Integrated Capacitive mTouch Sensing Module
  • Data Signal Modulator Module
  • MI2C, SPI, EUSART w/auto baud
  • 2 ECCP & 2 CCP (Enhanced/Capture Compare PWM)
  • Comparators with selectable Voltage Reference
  • 12 Channel 10b ADC with internal Fixed Voltage Reference
  • 25mA Source/Sink current I/O
  • Four 8-bit Timers (TMR0/TMR2/TMR4/TMR6)
  • One 16-bit Timer (TMR1)
  • Extended Watchdog Timer (EWDT)
  • Enhanced Power-On/Off-Reset
  • Brown-Out Reset (BOR)
  • In Circuit Serial Programming (ICSP)
  • On Board In-Circuit Debug
  • Wide Operating Voltage (1.8V – 5.5V)
  • Low Power PIC16LF182x/4x variants (1.8V – 3.6V)
  • Standby Current (PIC16LF1847): 30 nA @ 1.8V, typical

 

List of components inside the kit

 

Breakout board for PIC16F1847 microcontroller

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This is an improved version of my 18-pin PIC16F series breadboard module that I have used in many of my PIC tutorials and projects published in this website. The new version has got a +5V power supply regulator on-board and a 2.1mm female barrel jack for DC input from a wall adapter. The 18-pin PIC16F series microcontrollers are still very popular among hobbyists and beginners because of their compact size, low cost, and simplicity. The PIC16F1847 is the latest release in this series and is equipped with lot more peripherals and enhanced features than its predecessors. This breakout board will be helpful for rapid prototyping with the PIC16F1847 microcontroller. Since the predecessors of PIC16F1847 share the same pin configuration, this board can also be used with popular PIC16F84A, PIC16F628A, and PIC16F88 microcontrollers of the same series.

Breakout board for PIC16F628/88/1827/1847 microcontrollers

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PIC12F microcontroller project board

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The 12F series of PIC microcontrollers are handy little 8-pin devices designed for small embedded applications that do not require too many I/O resources, and where small size is advantageous. These applications include a wide range of everyday products such as hair dryers, electric toothbrushes, rice cookers, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers, and blenders. Despite their small size, the PIC12F series microcontrollers offer interesting features including wide operating voltage, internal programmable oscillator, 4 channels of 10-bit ADC, on-board EEPROM memory, on-chip voltage reference, multiple communication peripherals (UART, SPI, and I2C), PWM, and more. The following project board is designed for fast and easy development of standalone applications using PIC12F microcontrollers. It features on-board regulated +5V power supply, header connectors to access I/O pins, ICSP header for programming, a reset circuit, and small prototyping area for placing additional components.

PIC12F development board driving a serial seven segment LED display

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