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Development of the Bus Pirate PIC programmer involves testing a bunch of different chips. This $10 universal programming adapter from Sure Electronics will be really handy.
This board doesn’t actually program any chips. It’s an adapter that accepts a lot of different 18-40pin PIC chips and connects the programming pins to a header. The ZIF sockets make it easy to swap chips without damaging pins.
Thanks for the tip Sjaak!
Tags: adapter, ICSP, Sure Electronics
Can one Bus Pirate program another? Not yet, but we’ve been hard at work on it. This post is about a new application, available here, that will program PIC 24Fs from the Bus Pirate. Everything looks great on a logic analyzer, but it’s not working yet. Maybe you can help us figure it out, and get one of Ril3y’s laser-cut Bus Pirate cases as a bounty.
The Bus Pirate uses a PIC 24F. Unlike older PICs (12/16/18F), the 24F doesn’t require a 13volt power supply to enter programming mode. That means the 24/30/33F can be programmed with the existing Bus Pirate hardware. It’s matter of the right software. Keep reading for more about the Bus Pirate PIC24F programmer application.
Tags: ICSP, PIC programmer, pic24f
Today we’re giving away an assembled Bus Pirate high-voltage programming adapter. It has a 5pin PIC programming header, a 6pin AVR programming header, and a small 13volt boost-converter power supply. A 13volt supply is needed to program PIC 12/16/18F microcontrollers, and clear the RESET fuse in AVRs. It’s doesn’t do much right now though, because there’s no support for it in any programming apps.
This will eventually be available at Seeed Studio, but you can get a preview of the hardware by leaving a comment below. Let us know what you want to do with it, on Monday we’ll send the adapter to a commenter with an interesting idea. If you don’t have any ideas you can endorse another comment, we’ll take popularity into account when we give it away.
