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

[KD KD]

Indeed, no time to wonder if its the programmer that's quirky or the
software you just wrote!
It's hard enough to wrestle with one self-induced software bugs!

Kaurlos Demious Rexious

2012/3/21, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net>:
> I absolutely agree with Eric and Olivier. You need a programmer that is
> reliable and trustworthy (, even if that means having two. Anyway, why's
> that so bad? I've got two and I only use PIC/dsPIC!
>
> Tom (Reliable programmer? Lend me a tenner and see for yourself...)
>
>
> On 21 Mar 2012, at 16:35, Olivier Gillet wrote:
>
>> 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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