Quote Originally Posted by mr.sneezy View Post
I've had enough of dragging an old PC around with parallel ports around so I can program the odd PIC with my home made // port programmer.

After much sifting the web it looks like the USB PICkit2 clone here is the easiest and perhaps best currently around
http://www.mcuhobby.com/articles.php?article_id=7

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Thanks,
Martin
Did you build this mcuhobby version, and then found it to be the best?