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

[d b]

Must depend on chip.

Also professionally, I use ICD2, ICD3 and Pickit 3, and keep a list of
what seems to give the least trouble on each different model of PIC .

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Dan Snazelle <subjectivity at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I want to try dspic but dont have 70 for the programmer
>
>
> I did see a 30 dollar generic pickit sort of thing on ebay
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 21, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Tom Arnold <xyzzy at sysabend.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 03:01:39PM -0400, Harry Bissell wrote:
>>> professionally:
>>>
>>> Time and again I have tried the PICKit3 only to have it waste my time and ended up using
>>> the ICD2 or ICD3.
>>>
>>> The PICKit might be OK for some PIC processors but I don't trust it one bit !
>>
>> Interesting.  Well, I have had zero issues with the Olimex PIC-MCP-USB but
>> it probably doesn't handle something newer these days.  I mostly use Atmel
>> so it'd been "good enough" for me.  The huge cost of the picstart+ is
>> one of the reasons why I did mostly go Atmel...
>>
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