[sdiy] Microcontrollers, development environments and hardware programmer recommendations.

[Pete Hartman]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net>
wrote:

> > 2. a hardware programmer, portability is key. USB and port powered
> preferable.
>
> PICKit3 is cheap ($40 or so) and does the job. With this programmer, power
> is not supplied by the programmer, so the chip has to be powered, or you
> need to be programming a chip in a prototype circuit or on a breadboard.
>

That doesn't match my experience at all... ?

I had to go tweak some settings in the MPLAB X IDE to tell it to supply
power, but once I did, I could program with the PICKit 3 and basically a
socket on a stripboard, no other power source.
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