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isochronic
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Posted: 11:20pm 12 Sep 2016

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Hot off the press -

Microchips new Explorer 16/32 board PR

Just think, one could develop code on these, and then use a cheaper, simpler
Komodo board (see the pcb development thread per sn-5x, )
as a platform for the finished code

Komodo Edited by chronic 2016-09-14

JohnS
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Posted: 02:37am 14 Sep 2016

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Even better - ignore the overpriced Microchip board that comes with a PIC24 and instead get almost any other 32-bit (or more) uC board.

(Whether from Microchip or not.)

JohnEdited by JohnS 2016-09-15

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Posted: 09:19pm 14 Sep 2016

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I love the modern 16x2 alpha-numeric LCD on this new/latest (and expensive) board! Do they not know about colour TFTs or OLEDs?

Geoff (and PeterM) have definitely spoilt us with a multitude of cheap, colour, graphical TFTs to choose from (with touch!) for the PIC32MX.

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Posted: 11:41pm 14 Sep 2016

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WhiteWizzard said I love the modern 16x2 alpha-numeric LCD on this new/latest (and expensive) board! Do they not know about colour TFTs or OLEDs?

Not very inspiring when you compare it to an E100 with a 5" display.

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Posted: 11:50pm 14 Sep 2016

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Looking at the STM32 dev boards... they are so incredibly much better (and cheaper).

Microchip must have their heads up their (er, rears).

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isochronic
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Posted: 09:29am 17 Sep 2016

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AFAIN to use a graphic LCD, the LCD and its board
is plugged into one of the large connectors, sensible enough.
That allows faster screen updating and transfer.

I am interested in the USB UART/I2C, it uses a mcp2221 without a crystal so probably uses techniques like the 1455 adapters. Microblocks was right !

[edit/add]
Of course the point of using something like this, is that it is used with mplabx/pickit3 to develop programs in C, and so provides access for debugging, stepping through the code, examining variables, registers and so on as well as writing, compiling, and installing the program from the hex in the first place.

There is also a pic32MZxxxx plugin module. I noticed that the 24 MHz crystal has
smaller caps, 9pF instead of the 22 or 27 in the slower speeds.

Edited by chronic 2016-09-19

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