Microchip’s microcontrollers were the first ones I tried years ago and sometimes I still like to work on them, I think pretty soon I would like to try another brands, AVRs are very popular nowadays.
This is a board for the PIC18F2221 that I did a few months ago, it has a crystal on board, headers to acces all ports and a ICSP interface in order to program it, I have used the Pickit2.
The board was design using the open source program KiCAD which is pretty good, schematic can be found here: PIC18F2221 Board
PCB for Microchip PIC18F2221
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