Hello, and welcome in this new PIC Microcontroller article. Today, I’m going to cover Pinguino, a board that will make your life easier.

Training kits are taking over the World of Microcontroller:

As most of you know, there is PIC Microcontroller as stand-alone Microcontroller and there is Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and many other Microcontroller based training kits and board, but what makes every other board beats PIC Microcontroller is that they come with their already made training board, not at a chip.

How the Pinguino Board offers a solution:

Pinguino came to solve this problem , it provides a state of the art board based on PIC Microchip Microcontroller, with all necessary connections already made for you so, you can connect it directly to the computer and start writing and testing codes without any additional programmer or software, just like Arduino board.

What is Pinguino?

There are so many great platforms for creating digitally enabled devices that it’s gotten hard to figure out which one to use. Arduino is probably one of the most famous. However it’s supported ATMEL Microcontrollers. In this project we aim to bring the simplicity of Arduino language to the PIC Microchip Microcontrollers with built-in USB hardware.

An Open Source and Open Hardware project.

An Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Is compatible both with 8-bit (PIC18F with built-in USB module only) and 32-bit (PIC32MX) Microchip Microcontrollers.

It uses free and open-source compilers (SDCC & gcc-mips-elf, a targeted version of gcc for PIC32 microcontrollers) available for GNU/Linux, Windows & Mac OS X.