PIC programmer and software for beginners

Hello everyone,

There is a great PIC programmer and experiment board available here - http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/ and http://www.mikroe.com/eng/home/index/

As appose to my previous post. Theses are mint and up to date

Try it out.

Cheers Warren And Microchip

Regards,

Chris.

MicrochipRTCfr over 15 years ago

Hi,

If you look at the description of the Velleman K8048 (see below), you'll notice this is a very old board which has only RS232 conectivity (no USB !!!)...the list of compatible OS also shows it is not even validated against Microsoft latest OSs :
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System requirements IBM compatible PC, Pentium or better (may not work on some laptop computers) Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP CD-ROM free serial RS232 port
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I would rather recommend the excellent boards from Mikroelektronika which are numerous and most important...up to date ;=)

regards
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WarrenW over 15 years ago in reply to MicrochipRTCfr

For absolute beginners out there you can also try the devices from PICAXE - free programming software uses a 'basic' language or flowchart to program the beasties. Most countries have a local distributor, the chips are a few dollars each. Can be programmed via a USB to serial cable. Aimed at schools for educational purposes.

More info can be found at http://www.rev-ed.co.uk/picaxe/
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Former Member over 15 years ago in reply to MicrochipRTCfr

Cheers guys I will edit it now.

Regards,
Chris.
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