Amicus18 is a multifunction development system inspired by the popular Arduino board. Its based on the Microchip PIC® 18F25K20 running at 16 MHz supplemented by a FT232RL USB-to-serial chip and a LMV358.
Full documentation is available, as well as a free Proton BASIC Compiler, which is based on Crownhill’s Proton BASIC Compiler.
The bootloader source and firmware can be downloaded here.
The Amicus Proton Compiler uses the Microchip® Mpasm assembler and it requires that a version of the MPLAB IDE is installed on the same machine as the compiler.
If you like BASIC and PICs, give it a try.
The accessories seem quite pricey:
Ethernet Amicus18 Shield: £1199.99 inc. VAT
http://www.crownhill.co.uk/product.php?prod=2204
I’m guessing either a misprint, or they just set an arbitrary high price on the parts which aren’t yet in stock (?) The basic board itself seems a bit more costly than an Arduino.
John B: it would appear the shields are still not available yet, then. Hmmmm.
Any hopes that Seeed could take up making these boards at a cheaper rate.