Drjeseuss built a PicKit2 clone:
After completing the build, I programmed the PIC18F2550 with the PicKit2 firmware using a JDM pin wiggler. I connected to the PicKit2 Clone using both the MPLab IDE, and the dedicated PicKit2 application. Both connected to the unit properly. I loaded up the bootloader hex for the BPv4.0c. I then connected the PK2 to my BPv4.0c through the ICSP header and programmed the bootloader. It worked on the first try! Success!
Via the forum.
Greetings to all of you it possible to display detail components of the circuit in terms of the planned electronic circuit – with thanks
Here’s a link to the post with links and discussion of the schematics for this build.
Microchip generally has a sale on their tools at the end of the year and if you know of anyone going to Masters, tools can be purchased at a substantial discount there.
“Overall, while very messy, this was an easy build…”
What ever happened to wire-wrap. Cheap easy fast… Especially easy to modify. Maybe I’m showing my age.
Wire wrap was, and is, easy and relatively fast but it was never cheap. Many decades ago I was a software guy that got “drafted” by management into fabricating wire-wrap prototypes. I became quite skilled with both the electric guns and hand wrap tools. I look at it as a kind of higher quality breadboarding. The sockets were always hellishly expensive, and with the move to surface mount the whole technique has been marginalized. Now a-days you can laser print a first version protoboard and etch at home with the same layout and surface mount components that will be on the final board. double win.