Neil,
I've seen many handheld programmers advertised in magazines and the 
like, that claim to program everything under the sun. You might want to 
look into one of these devices. The price might be prohibitive unless 
you foresee a really good benefit versus the laptop.
Alternatively you can probably scheme together something with a PDA + 
serial programmer.
--
Martin K


PicDude wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Looking for a way to easily program PICs (16F91x, 16F62x, 16F87x mostly) "in 
> the field", which for me means in cars and places that I don't easily have 
> access to 120V power.  First thought is to use my laptop, and create a small 
> boost PS to raise 5V (from the mouse port or USB port) to 13V, then plug in 
> my ICD2, and have a mess or devices to carry around.
>
> So before I do this, let me ask -- is there a small hand-held programmer that 
> I can purchase on which I can easily download a hex file and use that to 
> program the PIC-based device?
>
> Cheers,
> -Neil.
>   

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