Homebrew PCBs

I will write it on the blackboard 100 times in peninence:  ICSP  ICSP 
ICSP....


--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Phil" <phil1960us@y...> wrote:
> I thought the 628 was an 18 pin chip.  :)
> 
> You might want to look at mill-max dip IC sockets.  They make 
fairly 
> long soldertail sockets.  the pins are 20 mils wide and 170 mils 
> long.  That might work though its a hack.  mouser has them.  p789 
of 
> current catalog.
> 
> I'd suggest you skip the socket stuff altogether and build an ICSP 
> header on your target hardware.  You could get an 18 pin socket and 
> solder on the 5 wires you need for the 5 (or 10) pin ISCP socket.  
> ICSP is 10X easier than prying the chip out of its socket and 
> sticking it into a programmer *every* *time* you make a change.  
> Also, you can just ICSP to a seperate socket.
> 
> Another approach is to get a "dip clip" and connect the appropriate 
> pins to the ISCP pins on your programmer.  Then to program a chip 
in 
> circuit, you just clip on and program away.
> 
> Phil
> 
> 
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony Toft" <toftat@c...> 
> wrote:
> > In my infinate wisdom, I built my pic programmer to program 
_only_ 
> the
> > 16F627 and '628 (both 28 pin). Now I am looking at other projects 
> and I am
> > going to need more IO, so I need to built an "adapter" for these 
> bigger
> > chips. I am looking for DIL pins that I can solder to the bottom 
of 
> my
> > adapter and will plug into the 28 pin socket. Sort of like how 
the 
> basic
> > stamp does. I have no idea to their name or where to find them.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks