What is it?

Pinguino PIC18F4550 is a diy board based on a PIC18F4550.

Why did you make it?

It's a perfect board to make your own projects at home, make tests of your prototypes, easilly to program through USB connection to PC/MAC. Or program that board throught Pickit programmer (or other programmer that you can have). You can program this board with MPLAB, MPLABX, CCS, Pinguino PIC IDE, etc...

I sell this item with a Pinguino Pic bootloader precharged. The bootloader is the initial software that enables the Microcontroller to communicate with the PC through the USB port. It also enables the Microcontroller to self update its own boot software via the USB port.

What makes it special?

This is a board with the next especifications:

It works with a 20 MHz crystal and is USB 2.0 compatible.

29 digital input/output with 8 shared analog inputs, UART for serial communications, 2 fast PWM output ( 3000 Hz ),8 analog inputs.

The board's schematic is that:

There is a 6 examples of code, that you can programm through Pinguino Pic IDE:

http://wiki.pinguino.cc/index.php/6_ways_to_blink_the_built-in_Led

And in this link you can download the files of the IDE, Libraries, instructions of installation, etc....

http://wiki.pinguino.cc/index.php/Category:Downloads