pkshima
Member
Hi,
About a year back I built the PIC16PRO40 (https://www.electro-tech-online.com/custompdfs/2007/05/p16pro40.pdf) for use with my old computer which has a parallel port. So no issues.
Now I have a laptop that doesnt have a parallel port (nor a serial port). Only USB, firefire etc.
So I am unable to use my programmer with my laptop. I dont want to spend time and money in building/buying a new programmer so I am thinking of buying a USB to parallel port converter.
My problem is that I doubt if there could be issues in that approach. The software I use is WinPicProg.
Perhaps this question has been asked and answered by someone somewhere. I just failed to locate.
I struggled a lot to get my programmer to work so dont want to discard it now.
Thanks in advance for your opinions and suggestion.
About a year back I built the PIC16PRO40 (https://www.electro-tech-online.com/custompdfs/2007/05/p16pro40.pdf) for use with my old computer which has a parallel port. So no issues.
Now I have a laptop that doesnt have a parallel port (nor a serial port). Only USB, firefire etc.
So I am unable to use my programmer with my laptop. I dont want to spend time and money in building/buying a new programmer so I am thinking of buying a USB to parallel port converter.
My problem is that I doubt if there could be issues in that approach. The software I use is WinPicProg.
Perhaps this question has been asked and answered by someone somewhere. I just failed to locate.
I struggled a lot to get my programmer to work so dont want to discard it now.
Thanks in advance for your opinions and suggestion.