Not a big deal, but for me, toner transfer is easier. With the resist board, you could do the same, but you’d have to cut it under red-light conditions and store the board properly. With toner transfer, I can grab any old copper clad board, cut it to size, and transfer. While photoresist is nice, the problem is that you have to have the coated board for it. If I was designing a circuit board, I’d use Eagle or something similar. If I was going to design an industrial PLC-based system, I’d use AutoCAD. AutoCAD, IMHO, is more geared towards control systems and ladder logic diagrams. ^)Įagle (or Kicad or whatever) is definitely worth learning if you’re going to be laying out boards with any regularity. Like the infamous vi/emacs war, it will leave a scorched earth with no winner…. Posted in Microcontrollers, Tool Hacks Tagged dev board, development board, pic, toner transfer Post navigationĬareful! By asking about Eagle, you’re about to start an Eagle/Kicad war.
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If you have been looking around for a simple PIC development solution, be sure to swing by site – all of the schematics and layout files are free for the taking. While very basic and not necessarily a hack, we do like seeing people make their own tools when the market doesn’t provide what they want. He says that the board itself is quite simple, consisting of little more than the PIC, an LM1117 linear voltage regulator, and all the pin headers you could possibly need. then busted out the iron and copper clad, making his dev board a reality using the tried and true toner transfer method. He spent a couple hours in Eagle, putting together a simple board layout. Since no retail offering had exactly what he was looking for, he decided to put together a dev board of his own. A few months back, was looking to get into PIC development, but he couldn’t seem to find a simple development board for the PIC16F883 microcontroller he wanted to use.
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