[sdiy] ISP programmer for both Pic AND AVR??

[Olivier Gillet]

The bus pirate can emulate both AVR and PIC programmers iirc. You
might need adapter cables - much better than a bunch of F/F jumper
cables. Not worth doing, IMHO. Nothing sucks more than tracking a bug
in code which turns out to be perfectly fine - just that it has been
flashed with a flaky programmer. Consider programmers like test
equipment - you want it to be as little "hacky" as possible if you
don't want troubleshooting to turn into nightmares.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Eric Brombaugh <ebrombaugh1 at cox.net> wrote:
> Don't know much about AVR programming, but I strongly recommend you get a PIC/dsPIC programmer that's directly supported in MPLAB. Anything else is just going to be frustrating and interfere with the development process.
>
> Eric
>
> On Mar 21, 2012, at 8:24 AM, dan snazelle wrote:
>
>> I am about to pick up a dspic , and I am also interested in learning to use AVR STUDIO to program my AVR chips.
>>
>> i was wondering, do i need to buy an ATMEL Programmer AND a MiCROCHIP PICKit
>>
>> OR is there a solution that will program both?
>>
>>
>> (they both use the same header so i thought that maybe.....)
>>
>>
>> thanks
>>
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