PIC microcontrollers!

[cantthinkofone]

Hey guys! just got a new PIC programmer and was wondering if any of you guys have used PICs in your personal projects. i dont mean arduino i mean the 'ol fashioned way with a good 'ol PIC. anyone?

 

[ARG]

Laserbee LPM's use PIC's.
If you have one you can make your own firmware for it, check out Trevor's SDK

Could make for a fun laser related PIC project.

I've used a PIC maybe once, I prefer AVR and ARM.

 

[Trevor]

Another embedded programmer! Yay!

ARM has been my platform of choice for the last couple years, but AVR and PIC are still quite fun to tinker with.

Trevor

 

[cantthinkofone]

I'm soldering it all together right now. It's so hard! So many small contacts. I think itll be good. If not I'll just order an assembled one.

 

[djQUAN]

I have a programmer for several years now but never wrote a software. I can't seem to make a compiler work in my PC so I never had a chance to learn lol I just use it to burn hex files from other projects.

 

[Trevor]

I have a programmer for several years now but never wrote a software. I can't seem to make a compiler work in my PC so I never had a chance to learn lol I just use it to burn hex files from other projects.

I use MPLAB X and a CanaKit programmer that acts like a PICKit2.

I use the HI-TECH PICC compiler.

What OS are you on?

Trevor

 

[djQUAN]

I'm running win7 on a laptop (thinkpad) The programmer is a kit jobbie connecting via USB. It reads and writes ok for my purposes.

I think I tried to install MPLAB before but didn't manage to get it working (I'm not too technically inclined in PCs ) can't remember though if it was on this or my old laptop which was running XP. Or was it that I didn't know my way around MPLAB haha