A low-cost prototyping board for use with Microchip's 40-pin PIC16F/18F microcontrollers. The PIC-Ready board features a rectifier and voltage regulator and can be used with AC or DC mains adapters from 8 to 16V. Clock and reset circuitry are provided as is a small prototyping area. The board also has five 10-way IDC headers providing access to the PIC's I/O ports and these may be used in conjunction with MikroElektronika's range of add-on boards. This makes the PIC-Ready board a useful step on from the EasyPIC5 development board as projects can be started using the EasyPIC5 and then migrated to a PIC-Ready board to easily create a prototype or finished circuit. The PIC-Ready board includes a connector for use with the PICFlash2 Programmer with mikroICD for in-system programming and debugging, but alternatively PICs can be programmed in an EasyPIC5 development board or any other programmer and then inserted into the PIC-Ready's 40-pin DIP socket.