The Explorer 16 Development Board is a low-cost modular development system for Microchip’s 16-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers. It supports devices from the PIC24, dsPIC and PIC32 families. A variety of families are supported with processor Plug-In Modules (PIMs) for easy device swapping.  The board includes a PICtail Plus daughter card connector for expansion boards including USB, CAN, Ethernet, wireless, graphics and many more.  Coupled with the MPLAB ICD 3 In Circuit Debugger or MPLAB REAL ICE, real-time emulation and debug facilities speed evaluation and prototyping of application circuitry.

Features
• Includes processor PIMs for both PIC24 and dsPIC families
• Alpha-numeric 16 x 2 LCD display
• Interfaces to MPLAB ICD 3, MPLAB REAL ICE and RS-232
• Includes Microchip's TC1047A high accuracy, analog output temperature sensor
• Expansion connector to access full devices pin-out and bread board prototyping area
• PICTail^TM Plus connector for expansion boards
• Full documentation in download section below: user's guide, schematics and PWB layout

Getting Started
1. Read the Explorer 16 User’s Manual (download section of this page)
2. Download the free MPLAB X IDE
3. Download the suitable MPLAB XC Compiler
4. Download and unzip the appropriate firmware demo code (download section of this page)

Explorer 16 100-pin: Includes 100-pin processor PIMs for PIC24FJ128GA010 and dsPIC33FJ256GP710

Buy DM240001

Explorer 16 44-pin: Includes 44-pin processor PIMs for PIC24FJ64GA004 and dsPIC33FJ32GP204

Buy DM240002

9V Power Supply: Recommended accessory to power the Explorer 16 board

Buy AC002014

Explorer 16 Starter Kit: Kit bundles the 100-pin Explorer 16 Board with MPLAB ICD3 programmer/debugger as well as 9V power supply

Buy DV164037

Processor Plug-In Modules (PIMs): Many processors are supported with Plug-In Modules for easy device swapping

List of all Processor Plug-In Modules (PIMs)

PICtail Plus™ Daughter Cards: The PICtail Plus connector supports a wide variety of application daughter cards which help speed prototype development

List of all PICTail^TM Plus Daughter Boards

Truly LCD 16 x 2 (3.3V): Prototype quantities of the display used on the Explorer 16

Buy TSB1G7000