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Fun => The Porch => Topic started by: Harley on April 20, 2013, 10:48:54 am

Title: Pickit
Post by: Harley on April 20, 2013, 10:48:54 am

Is there a site or page that shows the ins and out of the pickit 3, as far as use and what it can do and all that, waiing on mine to get here, just wantiing to do some reading

Title: Re: Pickit
Post by: arw01 on April 20, 2013, 02:08:11 pm

Harley, where did you buy your pickit 3 from?  Just a little behind the curve on you, but I may mail off my pics for a while to be programmed.  Trying not to go too broke with this new hobby!

Title: Re: Pickit
Post by: oj70chevy on April 23, 2013, 12:48:33 pm

TTT as i am new a and also ordered one. a how to would be a good thing. I know there are users all around that can program the chip for us but would like to be able to do it my self in case that user in or around when i really need some changes to be done.

Title: Re: Pickit
Post by: keitha43 on April 23, 2013, 12:57:47 pm

Try this page in the WIKI   http://www.diylightanimation.com/wiki/index.php?title=PIC_Programming_with_the_PICkit_3

I use the Pickit3 Stand Alone Programmer Appver 1.0 available here 
http://www.diylightanimation.com/wiki/index.php?title=Software

And with most of the newer boards you can program the chip on the board itself instead of using the interface boards with jumpers. Use the software link above instead of the MPLAB software but the procedure is the same.

Title: Re: Pickit
Post by: oj70chevy on April 23, 2013, 03:22:54 pm

Thanks for the link not sure how i missed it but thats what i needed.  <res.

Title: Re: Pickit
Post by: Harley on April 23, 2013, 03:51:04 pm

i bought mine from j1sys on ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/ICSP-Adapter-ZIF-Kit-w-PICkit-3-USB-Programmer-/230951861718?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35c5cdbdd6

thats the one i bought

Title: Re: Pickit
Post by: davron12 on April 24, 2013, 10:56:52 am

One of the most confusing things I found with the Pickit 3 was the software. I feel like Microchip does a horrible job posting the stand alone programmer for the Pickit 3. Microchip doesn't even list it, but they do for the Pickit 2. Added to confusion, there's two different versions of the stand alone programmer, one that supports the newer pics and one that doesn't. Forgive me if I mispeak, because this is all off the top of my head, but I believe it's the older version that supports the newer chips, but you have to install the new device file in order to do so.

Use the second link posted by Keith (http://www.diylightanimation.com/wiki/index.php?title=Software) to download the stand alone programmer and updated device file. Perhaps someone else can clarify if it's the v1 or v3 beta he should download. I can't recall and I'm not at home to check. Forget MPLAB for programming your SSC and etherdongle. If you're going write your own embedded software, that's another story and you'll need MPLAB then. For some reason, the .hex files only work with the stand alone programmer and not the programming feature in MPLAB.

Title: Re: Pickit
Post by: sabie on April 24, 2013, 11:04:46 am

if you buy a pickit from
here
http://www.microchipdirect.com/productsearch.aspx?Keywords=PG164130

if you can find someone with an email adress that ends in .edu then you will get a student discount which makes it more reasonable

Title: Re: Pickit
Post by: keitha43 on April 24, 2013, 11:44:09 am

I use the original v1. Not the v3 beta.

Title: Re: Pickit
Post by: sabie on April 24, 2013, 09:29:04 pm

I've used the pickit 3 on all my hardware no issues

Title: Re: Pickit
Post by: Harley on April 25, 2013, 08:55:05 pm

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if you buy a pickit from
here
http://www.microchipdirect.com/productsearch.aspx?Keywords=PG164130 (http://www.microchipdirect.com/productsearch.aspx?Keywords=PG164130)

if you can find someone with an email adress that ends in .edu then you will get a student discount which makes it more reasonable

I ordered mine from Ebay because it has all the ZIF boards for later projects