hi iam new here, i just wanna ask about pic programmer., i looking for a pic programmer that i can used in my project.. i want to design my own . plz help. i dont want to buy any of the expensive programmer.. thank you
I know you said that you dont want to buy one
and I thought of building too,
BUT, the Kanda Presto impresed me so much I bought it instead.
for $118 US including shipping it was well wornt it.
programs mst all pics,atmel, eeproms, you name it
usb, fast never fails
If I had chosen to roll my own I`d still be designing the pcb
just my .02
Homebrew programmers are a great learning exercise but you can spend an incredible amount of time developing the software (and the firmware, if you decide to design a programmer with a PIC).
If you're interested, here's my third design which uses a 16F88. The first and second versions were almost identical but used an 18F258 and an 18F2320, respectively. All three use ICSP control circuitry similar to the melabs serial and usb programmers.
More recently I thought I might try building a novelty programmer using an 8-pin 12F683 with most of the intelligence built into the PC host software but it's hard to find the time, and also, I suppose it's really time to start designing for the USB interface.
I know you said that you dont want to buy one
and I thought of building too,
BUT, the Kanda Presto impresed me so much I bought it instead.
for $118 US including shipping it was well wornt it.
programs mst all pics,atmel, eeproms, you name it
usb, fast never fails
If I had chosen to roll my own I`d still be designing the pcb
just my .02
On topic.. P16PRO40 is cheap and works for a lot of the PICS (not all the lastest ones but probably more than you will need for while). If you are after the Microchip PIC family only, it is a great programmer for the price. And winpicprog and winpic work with it and the price is right (free).
Off topic and funny. I went to read the forums from my EMAIL links and thought when I am done I will leave a new post to ask if anyone has a Presto USB programmer.
My plans were to get an Olimex ICD2 for PIC debugging (and programming) as my next toy, but just found out my Atmel STK500 is dead when I needed to program a 1200A for a friends TENS unit.
I have seen the Presto, and said one day for overall programming.. NOW with my STK dead.. I need a programmer for AVR.. I thought I would get a Presto if it had a good report and the Olimex ICD2 clone will be after that.. I want to do ICD with the PIC/MPLAB so bad and just never make it there.
It is $129.00, not sure about shipping at microcontrollershop.com. Where did you get yours for $119.00US with shipping?
Also, I saw the PIC 16F628A had a "?" by it and a link. Also the AVR Mega8 (I really like that chip and have many) has "?" by it..
? : Fully supports operation with Vdd below 5V.
? : These three devices have peremptory restrictions in the programming algorithm (Microchip errata document 80151G).