PIC18F4550 Mini-USB Development Kit

This development board comes ready with the Microchip USB Bootloader preinstalled - so you can use the Microchip Bootloader application to upload your program should you not have a suitable programmer.

To activate the USB Bootloader, simply connect the USB cable, hold down the on-board buttons MCLR and RB2, and then release MCLR. The onboard RD2 and RD3 LEDs will flash alternately, indicating that the board is ready to accept a new program via the Microchip HIDBootloader application.

The board comes complete with headers attached so you can easily mount it on a breadboard - it's the same size and pin-out as a normal PIC18F4550 DIP chip! It also provides an ICSP header so you can use a PICkit 2/PICkit 3 programmer.

In the kit you will receive the following items:

• 1 * PIC18F4550 Development Board
• 8 * LEDs
• 8 * 330Ω Resistors
• 8 * 10KΩ Resistors
• 8 * Tactile Buttons
• 1 * USB cable
• 1 * Downloadable User Guide Development board datasheet

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Not sure how to get started?

Get our wiring example to learn how to wire up the provided LEDs and buttons. The buttons and LEDs are labelled with the pin they attach to so you can easily use them from your code.

Useful links

• Development board datasheet
• PIC18F4550 datasheet
• Microchip MPLAB X - a free Assembler and C based programming environment for use with PIC microcontrollers

Microchip MPLAB X

Microchip MPLAB X