Sunday, April 17, 2011

Tachometer board has arrived

I ordered three boards on March 25th and six show up on April 14th... Thank You BatchPCB!  After about 30 minutes of soldering, the board was fully populated.

Populated Tack Board
My desk after soldering
Best of all, I plugged my PicKit2 into the board and it was recognized!  All I need to do now is fix the code so that it works on this PIC16F688.  I developed working code on the PIC16F877, which I do most of my programming on.  Unfortunately, I did not realize the vast differences between the two... not quite plug-n-play.