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Note 12/09: This was taken from the old pages...
These days, Microchip offers a broad range of inexpensive programmers, most of them are sold as a "Starter Kit". I recently replaced my "old" ICD2 by version 3, which is once more faster and does not need an external power supply. If you program a PIC an hour, get this one! Here's the old story for nostalgists... I've been using a Picstart Plus Programmer for years and years...
One of the first PPPs available in Europe... After some web researches, I discovered DL4YHF's fantastic WinPic, which supported a broad range of DIY PICprommers.
Just for testing purposes, I decided to build one of the simplest hardware available:
Built in a few minutes... After hours of debugging and reading through the programming specifications of different PICs, I found out why: The power supply needed a switch...
A simple modification resulted in flawless WinPic operation... It will not let you re-program a device which has already been programmed with:
Even the new ICD3 (or MPLab) will give you a warning before programming a device this way
(Although I never had any problems until now. And I programmed a few hundred devices until now...). Even though this little, almost "no-cost", programming solution is not the fastest or reliablest one, I frequently used it for several months...
Download
PicProm:
DL4YHF's great WinPic software can be found here.
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