Pinguino!

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Last two weeks I have been playing with Pinguino. Pinguino is PIC (from Microchip, the company) based Arduino-like experimental board. It supports USB Communication and Power-over-USB, so it's very handy for experiments with PIC technology. The basic PCB is very simple and easy to make.

You can find more about the project at Hacklab News Blog.

And now for some photos of the boards we made.

The "PinguinoTeam Croatia" proudly presents:

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