Buy the real thing. Save you time for programming. The real thing even has support from MicroChip, not that you will need it, but nice to know it is there.
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Buy the real thing. Save you time for programming. The real thing even has support from MicroChip, not that you will need it, but nice to know it is there.
Dave
Always wear safety glasses while programming.
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My thought too... and the usual...
give yourself a nifty 10$/hour.. how much time you'll waste to build it... how much a genuine and tested one cost?
Kits are great for wasting your time or for having fun, that one above remove some useful feature.. so you waste your time, you waste money, you waste feature... no gain at all.
Genuine PICKIT 2 all the way... the only waste... is the shipping delay... which you already do by trying to building it.
Steve
It's not a bug, it's a random feature.
There's no problem, only learning opportunities.
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OK, sounds like a PICkit2 device is a good thing from all replies.
No I'm NOT looking for a project :-) I have too many half done things laying about already.
I'll look at buying one then, but I got to say the DIY ones have lasted me longer than the commercial one I bought for $150 some years ago. It was a Warp-3.... Lovely bit of hardware, but software support sort of died after what I thought was a short time. Pity because it was serial and could be used now with a USB-RS232 converter if it supported current PIC's.
I guess MicroChip isn't going away anytime soon, but they are about to release the PICkit3 and I wonder if PICkit2 support will wane ?
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I have a PiCSTART + that is I think around 8 years old. Still going strong and still supported. Upgraded it a time or two.
So I do not think there are any worries with the PICKIT2.
Dave
Always wear safety glasses while programming.
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I hear about PICKIT 3, not sure how better/different it will be of PICKIT 2 (oh... it will be RED)... 'till now, it's just a 'dream'... to be released in January 2009.
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/id...param=en538418
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/id...irects=pickit3
Their PICKIT 3 starter kit is listed at 20$ more than the PICKIT 2 Debug Express Kit... euh... mmm few assumption as they have now new and improved USB MicroController in their list: Improvements on actual performance and actual tools (Serial Comm, Logic Analyzer), more built-in tools such as Serial/protocol Analyser (seems their PICKIT Serial Analyser is a dead horse), maybe Scope, spectrum analyser, maybe signal generator... sort of... Let's read this post in January
Last edited by mister_e; - 14th November 2008 at 03:00.
Steve
It's not a bug, it's a random feature.
There's no problem, only learning opportunities.
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