Good idea or bad? A PIC 18F47J13 with PICKit2 ICD in Arduino form

Just putting the idea out there.

I'm putting a new board together but in the process I got to thinking what if I put a PICkit 2 compatible ICD and 18F47J13 on an Arduino UNO type layout (so you can use their shields)

A basic PICkit 2 is very easy to build and a terrific little programmer that has a UART & logic probe mode.

The 18F47J13 is a very powerful 3.3V PIC with several re-mappable I/O pins and many are 5V input tolerant. It can easily replicate the I/O and peripherals found on the ATmega328. It's dual UARTs would come in handy for some projects.

Another option is no programmer, just a FT232RL (like the older Arduinos) and a 6 pin header for a PICkit 2 / 3. This would require a form of bootloader or make the ICD necessary.

Comments & suggestions welcome.

you have lost me!!! easy i know. are you saying a pk2 that can program arduino?? or have i got it wrong?

The PICkit was instead of the FT232 (programmer / serial port) and the 18F27J13 replaces the ATmega328 found on the Arduino UNO.
PCB header layout compatible with an Arduino.

It's not software compatible.

I have a uno32 https://uk.farnell.com/jsp/displayProduct.jsp?sku=1893211&CMP=e-2072-00001000&gross_price=true ( needs pickit3 ) and an amicus18 https://www.myamicus.co.uk/ ( uses a bootloader )

I would think a board ( namely theUno32 ) with a built in pickit3 would be great...

Yep, just like those. Just a different 18F PIC (it's the I/O mapping I like) and possibly a PICkit2 maybe 3.

I'd buy it.... But as you say, if you use a pic18 then a pickit2 would suffice....

interesting idea! yeah i would probaly have a go at it