ICD2 or the PicKit2

ShawnR said:

I ended up at the Blueroom website and tried emailing them on all of the links from their website but all got bounced back to me. Are they still there?

There products look good and reasonably priced.

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Try to click here or at the link in signature of any post by blue room... They have a maintenance issue and have made an alternative link

**broken link removed**

VISN said:

spruts PIC-Page ( german)
Translated version of https://www.sprut.de/electronic/pic/index.htm
-> PIC porgamming devices -> Brenner9 [edit ]
It shows a level convertor that allows programming of the 3v3 parts. So I can build a Junebug with pickit2 firmware ( flashed into my 18f2550 by JDM2 ). Except I will have to investigate a substitute for the BAT42 diodes

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you may use 1N5819 or 1N5822 level translation is easy as per application notes of Micro chip and one need not spend so much for this
Please search the microchip site for their application notes for 3.3 to 5 level shifting either way.

JUnebug also has dealt with that issue . Incidentally you may download JPUG publications from blueroomelectronics free and they contain lot of info.