Onat Ahmet wrote: > > Hi; > > I have joined this group about 10 days ago. I have > just purchased my first PIC16C84, together with a couple of > other components and a PCB, with a bit of prototyping > area (mail order; in Japan). > > Now I need a programmer! I found a couple of programmer > packages (schematics+software) over the net, and will > build one of them myself (we are short of cheap PIC > programmers in Japan!). > > The most important criterion for me is reliability, so that I > don't have to decide whether it is my code that is wrong, or > the programmer is acting up!(experience from a home brew EPROM > programmer...) A decent user interface is necessary here; not > the colorful Win95 type thing, but one that tells me what is > going on clearly (DOS preferred, but anything is fine-UNIX,MAC). > > Given this short background, can someone suggest a "the best" > design among those available over the net for free? > > I have been making circuits for about 15 years, about 7 of them > with microprocessors; so design complexity is not an issue... > > Well, what do you people suggest? > > Thanks; > > | Ahmet ONAT Kyoto Univ. Japan | > | E-mail : onat@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp | > | WWW page : http://turbine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/staff/onat.html | > | My 6 leg walker, RC airplanes & more in home page | Attachment converted: wonderlandthree:prog84b.zip (pZIP/pZIP) (0000466E) Attachment converted: wonderlandthree:proto1.zip (pZIP/pZIP) (00004670)