PICkit3 programmers are 20% off at MicrochipDIRECT

By using the coupon code “MPLABX” you’ll shave 20% off of a PICkit3 programmer/debugger, or a PICkit3 Debug express kit. PICkit3 is the latest in the PICkit series of programmers from Microchip. It supports all PIC and dsPIC microcontroller families. There are cheap clones floating around on eBay, but with this discount you can get […]

Open source chipKIT compiler works with other PIC32s

Markus used the new open source PIC32 chipkit compiler with non-chipkit hardware and programmed the firmware with a picKIT3: Since I had a board with a PIC32MX795F512H I built some time ago lying around, I tried if I could get some “Arduino”-code running on it. It works. The linker scripts that ship with mpide assume […]