HI speed programmer

[Jumper]

Any PicKit II or PicKit III clone and then all you need to do is use the stand-alone programming button. Since they are cheap you can buy i.e 5 and then click the buttons on all 5 ... sip some beer and connect the next board of the batch.

I bet with some serious soldering you can even connect the 5 units to the same button :-)

[Demon]

Or one PK2 with a 8-pins-or-whatever-you-need multi-position rotary switch (like old display selectors).

As you manually plug a fresh board, turn the dial to that position and click PGM. Unplug the PGMed board and replace with a fresh one.

You can only do so much manually anyways, so you'd only need 1 or 2 extra outlets. This could be wired on those dev PCB breadboards.

Not at my PC, can't google right now. Wife hollering something about "pick up all your darned PC crap from the kitchen".

[Tobias]

I would really like to program mulitple boards at the same time, not cycle through.

[Demon]

There's a lot of schematics for "gang multiple pic programmer schematic circuit".

Which is better I couldn't say. This one is neat, but I'd use zif sockets from ebay instead of those pogo thingies.

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/743

Robert

[jrprogrammer]

How about having Digikey pre-program them for you?

[peterdeco1]

I don't know if this will work for ICSP but I have paralleled up to 10 DIP chips and ran a cable to my programmer socket. It programs all of them at the same time.

[Demon]

Peter, did you have verify enabled?

Robert