Hello,

I've been all the afternoon looking on how to get into pic programming, I'm a linux user. 

I've got already gnu pic and other tools downloaded and compiled, as I've also seen PICKit's from microchip.

My question is if is there any tutorial or document that explains how to do a PICKit-alike thing from scratch? I'm using a laptop so an usb interface would be a must.

It's not because of money, probably is gonna be a bit more expensive to buy components separately and assembling them, than buying the actual pickit, but I've always wanted to learn about it, got a bit of time now, and like doing things by my own, though I'm not an expertise in electronics.

I've reading about PIC16F877, it's manual, and on the internet, read good things about it basically. Nowadays, is still a good election for a first pic experience? 

Also been asking myself the whole evening what software is used for pcb desing and printing from linux? I know postscript, and probably with the help of sodipodi and tex one could do somecing nice, though there might be some proper option for doing this, just curious about it.

Kind Regards,


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