At 11:52 AM 6/18/2004, Robert Mash wrote: >I've used a PICSTART+ at work for about a year now with pretty >satisfactory results. Except it seems kinda slow programming. >But now I'm looking to start doing some PIC projects at home and I'm >looking at my options: > >1.) a parallel-port Tait style programmer. Seems pretty limited in the >number of different PICs they can program. > >2.) Buy a picstart plus. Don't really want to spend $200. 3) Purchase a Microchip ICD2 using the DSPic competition discount voucher. US $99 from Arrow (don't need actual coupon) or any of the other distributors. You will also have to make a little adapter board maps the 6 pin telco cable to the PIC you want to program. The nice thing about this is that you get the debug capability for no extra charge . dwayne -- Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 20 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2004) .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .- `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body