USB Bit Whacker

Bit Whacker PIC USB Development Board

A USB Enabled PIC Development Board

Do it yourself: an inexpensive ( about $20 ) kit from SparkFun, or assembled: ( about $25 ) from SparkFun. Close enough to parts cost so that you might routinely use it as a basis for your projects.

• UBW (USB Bit Whacker) An inexpensive, simple input/output device to connect your computer to the real world.

Is this the first BitWhacker add on ( probably not ). A new project just beginning: Analog Whacker. This lets you use the BitWhacker to deal with the analog world as in addition to digital one. We will have some special software to work with this device as well.

On our own Site a special communications tool, works with BitWhacker and other microcontrollers as well.

• Microcontroller Serial Communications Articles which includes the following ( and perhaps more )
  • BitWhacker Java Communications
  • BitWhacker Command GUI
  • Graphical Data Logger
  • RS232/USB Probe
  • PC-Microcontroller Communications
  • Analog Whacker

If you are a BitWhacker User without your own site, why not expand information about the BitWhacker Here.

further reading

• UBW (USB Bit Whacker) by Brian Schmalz -- the original UBW design
• $25 USB Bit Whacker - 18F2550 PTH Kit
• $25 USB Bit Whacker - 18F2455 Development Board (fully assembled, programmed with a USB bootloader, and tested)
• USB Development forum (often discusses the UBW)