In my attempt to (re)learn electronics and PIC programming I’ve bought a K8055 board from Velleman. I know it’s not good to learn PIC (actually you can’t do it with this board) but all i want initially is to make some simple projects without the headache of programming the PIC.

The board comes with source code for C++ and a DLL so you can use it in your project to easly communicate with the board. If you need the library for linux get it from here.
As my C++ skills are … well … let’s just say i haven’t programmed anything in C++ for a long time, I made myself a small program in C#.