Byvac a small company in Yorkshire has produced this excellent little kit using the DIl varient of the PIC32 proessor which is programable in BASIC via it's on board serial port.
This is a kit of parts so that over 20 Projects can be carried out using the PIC32 IC with a BASIC like programming language on the IC can be purchased on its own if required but this kit includes the IC.
No programmer is needed as all the programs are compiled on the chip from text files. A serial interface is included.
Ideal for getting started using microcontrollers, the full tutorial is on line, see the link below. Learn about input / Output, multiplexing, interrupts, timers etc. Build a voltmeter and a real time clock. The IC is low cost and so can be built into a permanent project when finished (unlike development boards). No power supply required as this comes with the serial link.
Programs you write are initially loaded into the 32K RAM and then optionally saved to Flash to make the device run the project at start up.
