You might look at the line of programmers from EMBED INC.

www.embedinc.com

Note that this is Olin Lathrop's company. Many of you will remember him fro=
m
several years back on the list.

~ Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of Neil
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 1:37 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: [PIC] Jellybean programmer
>=20
> What is the latest preferred choice for a PIC programmer that can program
> directly from pre-compiled hex files?  Microchip is trying to fade off th=
e
> PICkit2 (which I love), and replace it with the PICkit3.
> However, there is only a beta standalone app for that which is buggy and
> apparently is not going to be supported anymore. I generally prefer to us=
e
> the manufacturer's tools, but willing to go third party here if I can
trust it will
> be properly supported over time (ie: being updated for better apps).
>=20
> The intention is that I give pre-built hex files to others to flash
firmware and
> don't want to give out the source code, nor have them work in that
> environment.  One of the things I've been meaning to do (with the PICkit2=
)
is
> to build a small embedded system (most prob linux) with a small keypad an=
d
> LCD interface that would someone select from hundreds (yes, hundreds) of
> files and it would invoke the PICkit2 to flash the code onto a device.  I
can't
> find anything for the PICkit3 that would let me do that.
>=20
> Thanks.
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