Handy if all you want is a PIC programmer, but what if you want to use it as a logic analyser or want to plug it into a pre-existing project board?
I would save up your pennies, cos that's all a real clone of the PICKit2 costs...with the official one from Microchip not far behind it.
Hi ! kp2010
i am also building this Palma circuit but first we need to put the hex file into the 18F2550
So i made the Art2003 programmer to do it
But in WinPic800 it is giving error when programming it, hardware test is OK but PIC is not detected, says "Unknown"
Can you please let me know how to solve this problem?
How did you program the 18F2550?
Thanks!
what i suggested is JDM and luckily has a feature of Vpp first, as 5V is derived from 12V. it is simple to make and can even be bread boarded for a while to meet our need of pre programming the 18F2550.
@kasamiko
thanks, i have successfully loaded the hex file into the PIC18F2550 by using my JDM hardware and Picpgm software.
Later made the pickit2 clone of Palma which has the zif socket right on the pcb and works great !!