<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 5:13 PM, Tom Wiltshire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@electricdruid.net" target="_blank">tom@electricdruid.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> 2. a hardware programmer, portability is key. USB and port powered preferable.<br>
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</span>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.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That doesn't match my experience at all... ?</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div></div></div></div>