PIC12F683 Development Board

I have recently made a new PIC development board for PIC12F683. It is an 8-pin microcontroller with a lot of good features including 10-bit ADC and PWM. The development board has following features:

1. A Regulated +5V power supply.

2. 3 Red LED outputs which can be connected to any GPIO pins using jumper wires.

3. An ON/OFF power supply switch.

4. A Green LED as a power ON indicator.

5. An 8-pin IC socket for PIC12F683 microcontroller.

6. Two potentiometers: one for providing Vref, and other for simulating analog input to ADC.

7. An ICSP header connector.

8. Two tactile switches for input operation.

9. A TTL to RS232 level shifter using a transistor circuit.

10. A piezo buzzer.

11. A DC motor with driving circuit.

12. Access to individual pins of PIC12F683 through female header pins.

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