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TonyA
- 27th January 2007, 21:01
I have been looking at The PROTON Solderless Development System made by Crownhill.

They mention it can be used with the Epic programmer, I was wondering if it could also be used with the MELabs serial programmer.

http://www.picbasic.org/solderless_dev_system.php

Does anyone know?

Thanks,
Tony
Bruce
- 27th January 2007, 23:51
The 10-pin programmer connector should work equally well with any MeLabs
programmer. They have kept to pinout the same for the EPIC, Serial, and both
USB programmers as far as I know.

You can check the ICSP pinout here http://microengineeringlabs.com/support/icsp.htm

If you're still not 100% sure, just ask Crownhill. They provide excellent support.
TonyA
- 28th January 2007, 00:07
Hi Bruce,

It does look the same. I'm waiting for Crownhill to get back to me on that.

I just need in circuit programming. I've popping my pics back and forth between the programmer and my board. I've been using one of those Radio Shack experimentors board. Been looking for a simple board like their Proton.

Thanks,

Tony A
Ron Marcus
- 28th January 2007, 16:19
I made my own by screwing a solderless breadboard to the lid of a 4x6 plastic Radioshack box. The uProcessor board is mounted on the lid also with the IO ports coming out as 22 guage wire long enough to plug into the solderless breadboard. I also hard wired four momentary buttons to the processor for user input. It looks like a spider colony but works amazingly well. I do not screw down the lid so when done, all the components I am working on go inside the box. I now have all sorts of development boards, but still ocasionally use "Charlotte" for quick assembly and testing.
Ron
malc-c
- 28th January 2007, 16:50
I use a solderless breadboard from Maplin for developing my projects, and used ISCP to program PICs whilst still plugged in to the board.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/images/Full/BZ15R.jpg

Cost was £10, and if you want more space they do two larger sizes, the larger is twice the size of the one show above and is still only £17

The one thing the Crownhill board offers is the built in serial comms, regulators, etc