No. You should just print the Gerber output. It doesn't matter what
hammer you buy; but it matters that people can see the photo you take
of your treehouse.

-marc

On 8/14/06, peter green <plugwash@p10link.net> wrote:
> The picsquirt is a simple cheap usb pic programmer designed by me (peter m
> green,plugwash) it was built at the request of one of my lecturers to the
> following requirements
>
> 1: program the 18F452 and 18F252 (as that is what the uni tended to use) and
> the usb pics (so one PICSQUIRT could be used to program another)
> 2: use USB (since paralell and serial are fast dissapearing)
> 3: be cheap in terms of parts cost.
> 4: be constructable by students.
> 5: be used as an in circuit programmer with the same connector as the ICD2
>
> the device uses a PIC18F2550. A 2455 should also work and was used in early
> prototypes but turned out to be unavailible from our regular suppliers. If
> you are building your own board and you don't care about size you could also
> use a 4455 or 4550. As far as targets go i've added every 18 series pic that
> i have here and any 18 series pic should be easy to add support for. Other
> series should be possible with new firmware.
>
> see http://www.p10link.net/picsquirt/ for more details
>
> I would like to enter it in the design contest unfortunately the PCB design
> was done using altium designer (on the universities systems), do you think i
> should re-do it in a more easilly availible PCB package and if so what do i
> reccomend i use? the free version of eagle?
>
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