On Dec 21, 6:24 pm, Jens Boos <webmas...@jb-electronics.de> wrote: > Can you recommend a programmer? Maybe based on USB?
Apologies for late arrival at the party... I had a pretty disastrous experience with a third party USB PIC programmer about 6 or so years ago, and that set me off on the path of preferring the manufacturer's own development kit. It may not be the shiniest or have the most features, but at least you're reasonably confident that it's going to work... And of course compatibility with the latest chips/IDE is very likely. So, I have a PICStart Plus which I do virtually all of my work on. I also have a PICkit 2 which I picked up for peanuts a few years ago but have only used once or twice. Nothing wrong with it at all and it's definitely faster than the PICStart. However, because I do all my project work using USB enabled PICs, I only use a programmer a few times per project - all the actual development work is done in circuit using the USB bootloader system. In that set-up, the PICStart is just so easy - slam the chip in the ZIF socket, blow in the bootloader code and then transfer to the circuit under development. You only need to go back to the programmer if you screw up the firmware royally enough that you can't activate the bootloader. Cheers, Jon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to neonixi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
