Your turn! Now that we have given you a start with programming PICs using Linux, we hope to see more projects using these chips and the tools we have mentioned above.

It looks to be a pretty handy board, which will be available on his Tindie store. To demonstrate the add-on, he programmed his ESP32-CAM and connected it to his enormous ping pong ball video wall.

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