CIKU PIC PIC18F4550 based Arduino form factor starter kit

CIKU PIC PIC18F4550 based Arduino form factor starter kit

Great news for PIC microcontroller lover. CIKU is for you.

Named after a type of tropical fruit, sweet and brown in color. Normally known as  “sapodilla“, they call it “CIKU” in Malaysia.

CIKU is PIC18F4550 based Arduino form factor starter kit for the hobbyist, student, developer or any maker that likes to use PIC microcontroller and want to utilize Arduino shield. We acknowledge and appreciate the ease of hardware interface provided by hundreds of Arduino shield out there. I am sure PIC lover would like to utilize these shields, and with CIKU, you will have it.

CIKU is born from the experiences of using Arduino and feedback we gather from SK40C users. Ciku comes with PIC18F4550 pre-programmed with Microchip USB HID Bootloader and with this, loading program will only require a USB Mini-B cable, no extra programmer is needed. This will lower the cost needed to get started. It reserves the PICkit2/3 6-way ICSP pads for those that like to use ICD or PICkit2/3 to load the program.

To utilize Arduino shield, CIKU has been designed based on the Arduino form factor, the side female headers, pin assignments, 5V, 3.3V, Reset and GND are compatible with Arduino UNO. Furthermore, to provide the feel of Arduino environment, we are developing a library for Ciku with MPLAB X IDE and XC8 Compiler (both are free IDE and compiler from Microchip).

You will be able to use the pinMode(1, OUTPUT) and analogRead(A1) as in Arduino IDE. It is not 100% software compatible, we are trying to minimize the transition effort needed. And it is open source, we welcome and invite everyone that love CIKU to help and contribute to library development, and share it, any form of feedbacks are more than welcome.

Features :

1. Comes with pre-programmed PIC18F4550 with USB bootloader.
2. PIC18F4550 running at 48MHz (after PLL with 10MHz external crystal).
3. Power via USB or external DC adapter (7 – 12V).
4. On board 5V 800mA (Max 1A) voltage regulator.
5. On board 3.3V 500mA (Max 500mA) voltage regulator.
6. USB mini-B receptor for USB connection.
7. Standard Arduino UNO R3 header, able to utilize Arduino shield.
8. Extra pads with standard 0.1” (2.54 mm) pitch to pitch.
9. 32KByte flash/program memory (~28K after bootloader).
10. Onboard Power, Run, and programmable LED.
11. Reset button and bootloader button for entering USB bootloader mode.
12. Program with MPLAB X IDE and XC8 compiler (a library is open source and provided)
13. Program loading via USB HID, GUI from Microchip provided.
14. PICkit standard ICSP 6-way pads for direct program loading (optional)

Package Includes :

1 x CIKU PIC PIC18F4550 based Arduino form factor starter kit

Due to the nature of hobby, we DO NOT provide any kind of warranty/guarantee/OR WILL NOT TAKE BACK any kind of products sold at www.havochobby.com /.in (HAVOC HOBBY).

Although we assure you all of the products are maintained through a strict QC from manufacturer itself. If you have any technical query after your purchase, you can directly call us or WhatsApp us on (+91) 9535545654. We will try our best to solve the query for the same.

Frequent questions on Return Policy:

QUE:- My product is completely working but of no use to me will HAVOC HOBBY accept return?

ANS:-  Due to the nature of hobby, we DO NOT provide any kind of warranty/guarantee/OR WILL NOT TAKE BACK any kind of products sold at www.havochobby.com /.in (HAVOC HOBBY).

QUE:I have purchased one product  through courier and during transit, it got damaged. Will HAVOC HOBBY accept return?

ANS:- Please note that Havoc Hobby Center has a different section to do professional strong packing. The team will send the images and videos of the products and packing prior to the dispatch. Any damage during the transit will be the responsibility of the customer as we dont have control on any courier service. If customer has any difference of opinion in this matter shall be arranged their own pick up service

QUE:- I have purchased one product which is sealed , since I purchased wrongly I need to exchange the product

ANS:- HAVOC HOBBY CENTER  may not exchange / accept return the item once sold.

• As a matter of facts almost all the products have return restrictions as it cannot be sold to another customer since its related to electronics, We urge customers to select products properly while ordering. If for some reason we do provide a Refund it will be in form of Coupon Codes only for next purchase.
• If the customer needs to know more about the product before the purchase, please call our help line number 080-22482248 (10.30AM -6.30PM) MON to SAT.