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.
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Populated Tack Board |
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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.