Quote Originally Posted by mister_e View Post
pay a brand new Pickit, 2 hours, Melabs USB, and so on.

Yeah i will fart on those until they totally disapear of the earth... guess what, it will never happen.

Let's say you want to build your own... only your time wasted on worth, at very least, the price of a PicKit.

based on 40-50$/Hours job so far.

Yeah i'm from an old school as well... you got for what you pay for.


I just went to the Microchip web site. I had NO idea that the PICKit2 was so inexpensive. Last time I looked, a programmer there was over $100+.
So, what's the difference between the $35 PIC KIT 2 @ Microchip (PG164120) and the MeLabs U2 (+ case + USB cable + header cable)?
It looks to me like there's a whole lot of not a lot of difference.
So, unless I'm missing something, for my money, given a choice between a clone for $20 and the PICKIT2, the choice would be obvious. And if it's what I'm thinking it is, I think I'm going to be spending a bit of money tomorrow with an upgrade (the ol' Warp13a is 8 years old after all, might be time for a new one anyways).