On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Byron Jeff <byronjeff@mail.clayton.edu> wr=
ote:

> You've hit upon a fundamental paradox if your goal is to create a USB PIC
> programmer using a PIC. To create the programmer, you have to program the
> PIC. But in order to program the PIC, you need a programmer. And if you g=
et
> a programmer, then there's no real need to build a programmer.

This seems to cover what you need to do in order to bootstrap a PIC program=
mer:

http://dangerousprototypes.com/2011/11/01/bootstrapping-a-picqueno32/

Honestly, just popping for a cheap PK2 clone seems to make a lot more sense=
..

-p.
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