So if you wanted to build your own PIC dev-board (like this one) you can use your Arduino ... do a little porting work to merge the projects, adding to the range of chips supported by this ...

We’d do it just for that alone. The rest of the procedure is to flash a DFU USB bootloader into the Arduino ... to the host as an Atmel programmer, and you can use any of the standard tools.

On the software end, Arduinos make programming ... are also other Arduino boards capable of switching between different resolutions, such as the Uno R4 Minima that can use either 10, 12 or 14 ...