DJ Delorie wrote:


nospam writes:
Hard to see how DIYing anything is worth the trouble

In general, two good reasons I can think of:

1. It's fun.

2. Building ICE capabilities into a multi-cpu device. For example, my
furnace has six CPUs, one big one which can reprogram the five
little ones.

When I said DIYing anything, anything meant any MPLab compatible
programming device.

ebay uk has ICD2 clones from £36 delivered.

The OP presumably has something rather more fun to do for which he needs a
programmer.
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