OLD PIC Microcontroller Programmers

These are units that are no longer available. See PIC Microcontroller Programmers for current programmers.

  1. http://www.newfoundelectronics.com/ Jim Roberts - Newfound Electronics - PICSTART PLUS - MPLAB compatible programmers. Also, conversion kits for most other programmers to allow them to be used directly with MPLAB

  2. $35 (+ shipping)The PIC Elmer 160 Project Board is a kit that includes a serial-port PIC programmer. http://amqrp.org/elmer160/board/ (2004-08: no longer sold ? But full schematics, documentation, etc. are still online here).
  3. http://www.bubblesoftonline.com/demo/ROMzap.html Tony Nixons free ROMZap bootloader for 16F87x [Ed: It Rocks!] can program the boot code with a "less than $5" circuit and the rapid load your code into the chip after that. It can also sort of do a polling ICD-like code and register watch. And it can display A/D readings on a Windows DVM and generate code.
     
  4. Tony Nixons' Pocket Programmer
     
  5. Tony Nixons "The Engine" can be made to program just about anything. Software available for most 16x uC;s and the 93C56.  The engine. temp at: http://210.8.30.173 normally at http://www.bubblesoftonline.com/engine.html. Source has been released.
     
  6. Tony Nixons ASCII programmer. Program a 16F84 with 4 resistors, 4 diodes (1 zenor), 2 capasitors,  a NAND gate and a 13v battery <GRIN>. Free software or write your own (simple). Available at: http://www.bubblesoftonline.com/projects/prog.html (cached 200003071344)
     
  7. http://www.voti.nl/wisp/ WISP : Wouter's In - System Programmer for the PIC 16f84 Margining support, multiple devices can be daisy chained on one serial port, obsoleted by Wisp628.