Has anyone seen this PIC programmer before

Has anyone seen this programer before and is it worth it and does it work?



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Thats an development borad that has an on bord programer.

Would that be a good beginners but wont grow out of PIC programmer and learning device.

Wow, that's quite a lot of.... stuff.

I would stick with protoboards! There's a lot of crap here, little of what you need, and some might mess with the system. For example, those "LEDs showing the state of every pin" will interfere with an input to the PIC that does not have a low impedance. And there's no real development room here anyways... it's not really even a development board, more like a demo.

The PIC socket should preferrably be a ZIF but it's just a regular socket.

that was my question ., where is the zif socket?
also the LCD is optional i think..
looks cool though..
I guess you dont want to make it yourself..?

I do want to make it myself I just like to do alot of research before I commit I want one that is beginner friendly and I will not out grow in a few weeks of trainning and be able to program all types of PIC's


Also I did not know they had a 40pin PIC?

nigels site has this programmer..
https://www.electro-tech-online.com/custompdfs/2005/06/p16pro40.pdf
and
will program this many pics..
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with Nigels software you would be all set..
and you cant get more beginner friendly than something you make yourself..
and you are almost guarenteed support, right here