Portable PIC16F145x Development Platform

About a year ago, while I was developing the blink(1) mk2, I created both a PIC16F1455 development board and a little assemblage that was tiny enough to toss in my laptop bag but powerful enough to let me develop on the PIC.  I could now develop firmware in a coffeeshop!

Portable PIC16F1455 Development Platform

It consists of:

All taped together with double-stick foam tape.

The Sabrent USB hub is because it acts a partial goof-protector if I short USB power & ground and the per-port power switches make it easy to power-cycle the device I’m developing without unplugging-replugging.  The solderless breadboard is just big enough to support the addition of a few extra components.  And my dev board has female headers with male pins that stick into the breadboard, holding it securely place and making wiring to the dev board a snap.

If only MPLAB X & PICKit3 wasn’t so pokey for programming (it can take 15 seconds from the time you click “Upload”  to having your code running on the device)

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