As stated in the title, I am new to PICs and want to program them in BASIC so I am looking at Swordfish (18F series) and / or MikroBasic for PIC. However, I ordered some samples from Microchip to start with being:
PIC18F4520-I/P
PIC18F4550-I/P
PIC18F2550-I/SP
PIC16LF84A-04I/P
Two of them I beleive are USB based and the 16F84A is more of an older classic.
Anyway, can someone point me to a pic programmer that I can layout on a solderless breadboard (hopefully 5v compliant - e.g. not need 12v or anything higher than 5v).
Thanks.
PS: I have been working with Parallax SX-28 microcontrollers over the last 2 years but never really used PICs before but they should be similar.
PIC18F4520-I/P
PIC18F4550-I/P
PIC18F2550-I/SP
PIC16LF84A-04I/P
Two of them I beleive are USB based and the 16F84A is more of an older classic.
Anyway, can someone point me to a pic programmer that I can layout on a solderless breadboard (hopefully 5v compliant - e.g. not need 12v or anything higher than 5v).
Thanks.
PS: I have been working with Parallax SX-28 microcontrollers over the last 2 years but never really used PICs before but they should be similar.