Very Simple ICSP Programmer

[mister_e]

10V is way too low, this have to be ~13V. This kind of programmer is really not recommended anyways.. worst if you use a USB to Serial converter.

There's few variant of such cheap programmer like JDM, JDM2, Taits, Ludipo, ElCheapo, PicBlaster and the list is long... none of those seems to work properly... even worst with Vista

I've been told the parrallel PIC programmer in the list above work better... BUT ANYWAY...invest ~40$ and buy yourself a real Microchip PICKit 2 or a clone like JuneBug.

and huh.. why not using 12F508 wich is a flash version.. so you can write on it again and again... and again.