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Acrylic sheet, real cheap.  Most plastic places have a bin of odds and
ends and sell it by the pound. You can cut on a table saw.
It comes with protective paper on it (usually).
The also sell the solvent glue and plastic bottle that has a tiny
stainless steel tip.  You can glue pieces together using capillary
action.
I have used this place:
 
http://paragonplasticsco.com/index.htm

Mike Hagen
Hagen Engineering
Crestline, Ca.
Mike@HagenEng.com
(909) 338-5521




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Subject: Re: [PIC]new usb pic programmer design,
	want to enter it in the piclist design contest.
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:03:27 -0700
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Peter,

    Where did you get the glass/plastic cover from?
Any source for it?

Thanks,
John

--- 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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