This is the power input area. The two pins on the left are where you connect the battery or power source, red to + black to -.

The black/grey part at the top is the 5v regulator, provided that the input source on pin1 is greater than 6 - 7v it will produce an even +5v output on pin 3. The middle pin is for the common ground. So input goes to pin 1(+) and pin 2(-). The output is pin3(+5v) and pin 2(gnd).

The blue cans are the electrolytic capacitors, the one on the left goes between input voltage and ground, this is there to provide a backup of power incase your battery need help. The one on the right helps the voltage regulator by smoothing the signal, The voltage regulator gets hot when it is used, because your circuit will be drawing different amounts of amperage at different times, the voltage regulator has to work harder shifting between the powers and getting even hotter, The right capacitor goes between the output voltage and ground It provides additional power in case of excessive current draw, and also helps the voltage regulator by handling a lot of the current changes and keeping the regulator cool.

Note: I used this setup for 2 hours with the servos and circuit running through the voltage regulator, and it didnt reach above 50 degrees C. 

 This is the PIC18f452 mcu. When soldering the board, dont solder the mcu in. You should solder in the DIP socket that was on the electronics list, the PIC mcu will then slot into that dip socket later, so you dont damage it when soldering, and it is removable for other projects and programming if you dont have an in circuit programmer.

Notice the pins are numbered, The picture below show what the pins actually are.

 This is the PORTA bus, the bottom set of pins are connected individually to the porta pins on the pic18f452. This port has 5 a/d converter pins on it so we can use it for sensor input later.

The middle set of pins are all connected together, and then connected to +5v to make part of the power bus.

The Top set of pins are all connected together, and then connected to GND to make the other part of the power bus.

When soldering these, the pins all want to be next to each other, so the gnd pins go in, then the +5v pins go in the holes directly next to them. You should end up with 3 rows of 6.

 This is the port D bus. PortD is a general i/o port, there are no special features attatched to it apart from its ability to be an 8 bit paralel output which we probably wont be using on a robot.

This port is ideal for controlling devices such as servos.

The bottom set of pins are connected individually to the portD pins on the pic18f452(port d is scattered about 3 different location on the pic).

The middle set of pins are all soldered together and then connected to +5v.

The top set of pins are all soldered together and then connected to GND.

As with the above these sets of pins want to be placed right up next to each other to make 3 rows of 8 pins.

 This is the serial interface, The pins are arranged to connect directly to the rs-232 shifter board from sparkfun electronics.

The right pin is +5v

The 2nd in from the right is GND

The 2nd in from the left goes to the TX pin on the pic18f452

The left pin goes to the RX pin on the pic18f452

 This is the JDM ICSP programming header, compatable with a JDM style programmer.

The pin n the right is connected directly to the MCLR pin on the pic18f452.

The 2nd pin from the right is connected to +5v.

The middle pin is connected to GND

The 2nd pin from the left is connected to PGC (programming clock) on the 18f452

The left pin is connected to PGD (programming data)on the 18f452

 This is the reset header, the left pin is connected to the MCLR of the 18f452

The right pin is connected to a resistor, which is then connected to +5v.

When you h333ave your pic programmed and runnin, use a pin jumper to connect the 2 pins together, to do a soft reset on you program, remove the jumper and put it back in.

When using a jdm style programmer, you will need to remove the jumper when programming. The mclr pin must be brought to around 12/13 v to enter programming mode and so we need to isolate this from the main circuit by removing the jumper.

 Finally, this is the oscillator crystal set up. The silver can is the oscillator, one leg wants to connect to the OSC1 pin on the 18f452, the other leg to OSC2.

Each leg should also be connected to a small ceramic capacitor usually between 22 and 35 pf, I am using 33pf capacitors (the datasheet says 30pf)and it works just fine. The capacitors want to be connected between each oscillator leg, and also to GND.