Member Orunmila Posted December 23, 2018 Member Share Posted December 23, 2018 Did you guys see the new XPress Evaluation boards that Microchip are now selling. These boards are very cheap and pretty cool way to start. They do not need any programmer to get going (programmer is on-board) and they also implement a USB CDC interface so you can hook up printf to go to the serial port and get a console on your device going. If you are using MCC you can set all of this up without writing a single line of code! Pretty cool beginner board I think and they are going for $12 with an additional $3 discount running right until the end of 2018 ! The boards look like this : You can get them from Microchip Direct here : https://www.microchipdirect.com/product/search/all/DM182026 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member N9WXU Posted December 23, 2018 Member Share Posted December 23, 2018 Even better. The USB programming interface code is all on GitHub HERE-> https://github.com/MicrochipTech/XPRESS-Loader 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtemples Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 When I was looking at these, it didn't appear that they had an onboard debugger. Is that the case? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vloki Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 Yep, looked at these XPRESS boards some time ago and missed the debug feature too. Wouldn't it be nice to have PICkit on board feature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member N9WXU Posted December 26, 2018 Member Share Posted December 26, 2018 The XPRESS boards do NOT have a debugger. However, they are being replaced with CURIOSITY nano boards. The Curiosity Nano PIC16F18446 and the Curiosity Nano 4809 both raise the XPRESS hardware to the next level. https://www.microchip.com/developmenttools/ProductDetails/DM164144 https://www.microchip.com/DevelopmentTools/ProductDetails/DM320115 The on-board debugger used by these nano boards is also present on the AVR IoT WG development kit. Expect to see lots of new development hardware with on-board debugging in the future. They include : 1) CDC serial port 2) Mass Storage Drag and drop hex file programming 3) Mass Storage drag and drop serial messaging (send a text file with a keyword and it goes out the serial port) 4) MPLAB support with native programming & debug The AVR versions are also supported by Studio. For those with AVR memories, these are updated versions of the old EDBG debuggers. The updates add PICmcu support but they are still CMSIS based debuggers. Here is a project I built using a PIC16F18446 Curiosity Nano directly. This is a model rocket launch controller. More information on the rocket controller is here: https://workspace.circuitmaker.com/Projects/Details/joseph-julicher/rocket-controller 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Orunmila Posted December 26, 2018 Author Member Share Posted December 26, 2018 3 hours ago, N9WXU said: Here is a project I built using a PIC16F18446 Curiosity Nano directly. This is a model rocket launch controller. More information on the rocket controller is here: https://workspace.circuitmaker.com/Projects/Details/joseph-julicher/rocket-controller You should post that one under projects !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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