Quote Originally Posted by mister_e View Post
Yeah, expensive indeed. I know microchip do one as well, still expensive.

Sure it's doable to create your own with your interface. You just need to launch your regular PIC programmer application few times and switch the programming pins from one socket to another, that way, each PIC will be verified before... slower but shouldn't be so hard to build.

Food for thought!
Another perfect place for your USB code...
Build a circuit to switch Vpp and Vdd amongst multiple chips in the gang programmer, and hook up your USB cod/circuit to generate keystrokes to start the program/verify sequence again with whatever software you've got running...

yeeeeshhh....another sleepless night...