On 4/12/06, Maarten Hofman <cashimor@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > kits are one of the better programmers out there.
> > PICkit is so so but the user would soon out grow it.
>
>
> Now I'm not saying anything about other programmers being better, as I am
> sure there are better programmers out there, but I've had the PICkit 2 for
> some time now, and doubt I will grow out of it soon. It does everything I
> would ever want: ICSP and (using the demoboard and a board I created myself)
> off-line programming of a wide range of PICmicros, which include all the
> ones I have, and more. It is also fast enough (at least twice as fast as my
> JDM programmer) and might be integrated with MPLAB as well. But I should
> phrase this as a question: what makes the PICkit 2 "so so" and cause users
> to "soon out grow it"?
>
> Greetings,
> Maarten Hofman.

I have PICkit 2 and I think PICkit 2 is quite good as well. It supports major
PICs which new hobbyists should use. And new functionalities will be added
to PICkit 2 later (like dsPIC programming). In fact I think it is one of the
best ready-made PIC programmers.

Regards,
Xiaofan

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