Thomas Kibalo, who has written many articles for Nuts & Volts magazine, delivers the beginner's book many have been looking for: Beginner's Guide to Programming the PIC24/dsPIC33. Using the low cost Microchip Microstick module with PIC24HJ128GP502 and the free to download lite version of MPLAB C Compiler for PIC24 MCUs and dsPIC MCUs, Kibalo takes you step by step through the fundamentals of programming the PIC24H which can equally be applied to the dsPIC33. His clear explanation of the inner workings make learning the PIC24H/dsPIC33 16 bit architecture easy. His code examples demonstrate how to perform the functions most applications require. The hardware is shown in simple breadboard setup so even a beginner can build along with very few extra components needed.