ATmega & PIC Prototyping PCB

[Brendan]

Hey Gang,

My order of ATMega / PIC Proto boards arrived! I had to build a little table-saw to cut the boards...it seems to work okay.

I've built a couple of prototypes up...one running at ATMega 328PAU with Optiboot serial bootloader...programmed with a simple blink sketch using Arduino. It's connected using an FTDI adapter, connected to the serial connector (which also has POWER and GND)

The second board is running a PIC 18F14K50 which is a USB-capable PIC chip...so I used the in-circuit serial programming connector to put a USB bootloader on the chip...then I programmed a simple blink program and downloaded it to the chip via USB. This board is pulling power and data signals from the USB connector.

I used a hot-air gun to solder the ATMega due to the pitch of the pins...I used my soldering iron to solder the PIC chip, as it's more manageable to solder with my particular iron.

I'm stuck in meetings every Wednesday evening with a foreign partner..but I'll see if I can't run these by so you can take a look this Wednesday.

Brendan