> Are you serious? You just found a list of ~ 1k nerds and you ask them to
> agree what the recommended programmer is? And BTW, asking for agreement
> on anything else will be just as futile :)
>

lol, well have to start somewhere :) There are a lot on ebay and they
all offer different setups so was mostly looking for a list of
recommended ones so I can weed out the crappy ones.


> > I plan to do this as a hobby so I dont need
> > anything robust.
>
> Somehow that does not sound very logical to me :)

I'm a programmer, and had some ideas for devices I wanted to create
but lack the EE knowledge to make them. I've been following PIC's for
a while, I love Circuit Cellar :)  Thought maybe this was the route to
go... also pondering FPGA development but that's above me at this
point.

What I was hoping to do is use PICs for i/o processing. Sensors etc.
Be able to record data and transform it into a way that can be sent
and processed by a computer. Plus some other little projects. I dont
want or expect to get to the point where I'm sitting in a lab with an
oscilloscope debugging, but if I can create hardware to do what I want
from a software point of view I'll be happy :)

Thanks to everyone who's replied.

-Josh
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