On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 00:12:59 -0500, Vu Hoang wrote:

>Have any of you guys ever actually built a PIC programmer yourself or built
>one of the PIC programmers from David Tait's site or any other site?
>
>If you did, could you tell me if it works or if it was difficult to do?
>I also plan to build a programmer myself, but I'm not sure if it's better
>to build one that interfaces with the parrallel port or the serial port.
>
>let me know..
>
>Thanks
>John
>


I have built David Tait's paralell PIC programmer and also a YAPP PIC
 programmer.
The YAPP programmer is serial port based. It uses true RS-232 communications,
although the programming process is much slower than David Tait's.



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