Hey Martin,

Hmmm... scouring N&V and CC now, but nothing yet.  Any pointers/URL's?

BTW, you're in college, so I'm guessing your definition of "cost prohibitive" 
is a bit different than mine :-)  I'd say $100 would be nice, but $200 is 
fine if it's a nice easy-to-use and ready-to-run solution.

Cheers,
-Neil.



On Saturday 20 January 2007 22:51, Martin Klingensmith wrote:
> 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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