Hi Josh, Do you have some drawings / pics of your current programmer? Maybe we can h= elp you get that one working, is this other module just a cable assembly to= allow you to connect to the PIC? Anyway the EPE electronics magazine is having a promotion where if you by t= here magazine for November or December you can get a PICKit2 programmer/deb= ugger which should be plenty for what you need, see bellow: "Everyday Practical Electronics magazine and Microchip have teamed up to of= fer you the chance to buy a PICkit 2 Debug Express Kit (DV164121) at an ama= zing discount price of only =A39.99 including delivery! In the November and= December issues of EPE, find out how to purchase this kit via microchipDIR= ECT using a unique code contained in EPE. As this is an unprecedented price= the offer is limited to one per household, UK addresses only. Both issues contain constructional projects using the PICkit 2 - the Novemb= er issue showing how to design a Theremin and the December issue teaching y= ou how to make an mTouch capacitive switch. PICkit 2 is a pocket sized complete programmer and debugger which allows ea= sy in-circuit development of selected PIC=AE microcontrollers. Any personal= computer can become a development station using the supplied MPLAB=AE IDE = development tool for writing code, debugging and programming devices. A sin= gle USB port is used to interface with the PICkit 2 and control your PIC pr= oject, enabling you to halt, single step and break point your code on your = target board. To find out about how to buy your PICkit 2 Debug Express Kit at this specia= l price, make sure you buy the November or December issue of EPE, available= from WHSmiths or by visiting EPE's website www.epemag.co.uk. You can also = pay for and download a digital copy of the magazine from www.epemag.com." Hope it helps = Best regards Luis -----Original Message----- From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of= Joshua Shriver Sent: 12 November 2008 03:42 To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. Subject: Re: [PIC] Recommendations A Pickit 2 "?clone?" is what I bought.. granted I hear it's nice. But requires some kind of attachment to do inter circuit programming?!?.. Granted I'm old school pic, without being a pic guy.. when I first heard and was excited about this.. you bought a programmer, you plugged the chip into a socket, programmed it and was done. Then I waited, bought a recommeded board on ebay, but once I acquired it (still in static bag) it requires some other attachment for ICP. Worth dishing out for what you recommended? Or should I just get the ICP module? BTW to note, I'm not an EE guy. I'm a programmer, interested in EE/embedded systems. >From my point of view, I want to program, flash, and create/learn as little EE as possible to send/receive i/o from my device -Josh PS. Then again I have been interested in VRML for FPGA boards, but that is an entirely different thread :) On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Joshua Shriver > wrote: > > I bought a pic burner almost a year ago on ebay.. seemed nice but > required > > a second piece that I never bought so no real work done. Willing to > consider > > the $40 loss and seeking new recommendations. > > > > What do you all recommend now as a pic burner? > > > > My requests are low... all I plan to do is write code, burn to PIC and > > interface serially. > > > > Microchip PICkit 2 at US$35 (plus shipping) should be fine for you. > http://www.microchip.com/pickit2 > > Xiaofan > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- = http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- = http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist