Re: PicStart Plus and PIC16F1936

Xiaofan Chen <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:55:51 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.microcontrollers.gnupic
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Maxime Larocque <[email protected]> wrote:

> - Should I simply let myself go on the dark side and buy a pickit?

You do not need to go to the dark side. Use PICkit 2 and it
supports Linux and Mac OS X along with Windows. It is also faster
than PICStart+.
http://www.microchip.com/pickit2

> - Is the pickit 3 about to be supported in Linux, either natively or through
> Wine, mainly for the programmation of the device?

Forget about Wine which does not have good support for USB.
And as of now, PICkit 3 is not as good as PICKit 2 (less reliable,
easily turned into a brick) and it does not support Linux.

In the future, PICKit 3 may support Linux.


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