RE: Learning PIC on the job

Wisp628 is a much better recomendation for programmers under 
both Linux and Windows than JDM/Tait type. It is a pity that 
so far XWisp2 (the C port of XWisp under OS/2 and Windows 
from Rob Hamerling http://www.robh.nl) does not work
with Linux yet. Only the python program is working under
Linux and it is much slower than XWisp2. It seems to me
that only the os dependent xwisp2os.c needs to be ported
to Linux. Maybe some expert in this list can take a
look at it.

Regards,
Xiaofan

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthijs van Henten [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 9:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [gnupic] Learning PIC on the job


I have been 'learning' pic on the job -
I started out with a jdm programmer and destroyed a couple of pics while 
moving the chip in and out of my cirquit.
Also I found it to be quite slow. i use a wisp628 kit now. in serial 
programming, I just made another connector to my cirquit. I use a 
dataswitcher  to switch between the cirquit serial output and it's 
programming port and basically made a small experimentation board around 
a 16f88 and 16f628 this way. I soldered nice colored wires to all of the 
left over ports ( A0 to A5 and some of port B ) and stick them in to 
breadboards to connect to other periferals.

compiling -> uploading to the pic -> reading debug output from serial 
port takes 30 seconds, versus a cycle of 3 t o5 minutes and the risk of 
breaking a leg off my pic sometimes.
the wisp kit can be build yourself or ordered but quite cheap.

cheers!