5×5 PIC Protoboard

Posted: November 27th, 2011 ˑ Filled under: Hardware ˑ  Comments Closed

I’ve been working on a quick prototyping board using the PIC18F4550. It’s crammed on a 5cm square board to take advantage of the Seeed Studio PCB service of 10, 5cm square PCBs shipped for $14. All of the PIC IO is brought out to headers on the sides of the board. Ideally I’ll make 5x5cm boards to attach to the top or bottom similar to Arduino shields.

The board is almost all surface mount components. One of the first projects will be to make a toaster over into a USB controlled reflow oven.

While I wait the 30 days or so for the PCBs to arrive, I’ve been playing around with EagleUp which exports boards from Eagle to SketchUp. It has a very small parts library, but I’ve been learning SketchUp to add some more parts.



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