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eevblog reviews the PICkit 3
by Mark Rages
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An excellent, entertaining review of the PICkit 3. Video, contains
strong language! http://www.eevblog.com/2009/10/21/eevblog-39-pickit-3-programmerdebugger-review It would probably be a worthwhile project to port the PICkit 2 firmware to the PICkit 3. I'm not aware of anyone working on this, but I'll try it if I get a 3. Regards, Mark markrages@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC markrages@... -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist |
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RE: eevblog reviews the PICkit 3
by Steve Smith-2
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Well I wont get a 3 then...! I found a pickit serial and I'm sure there's a
'2' here somewhere...been spoilt have an MPlab 3... Steve -----Original Message----- From: piclist-bounces@... [mailto:piclist-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Mark Rages Sent: 21 October 2009 20:06 To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.; pickit-devel@... Subject: [PIC] eevblog reviews the PICkit 3 An excellent, entertaining review of the PICkit 3. Video, contains strong language! http://www.eevblog.com/2009/10/21/eevblog-39-pickit-3-programmerdebugger-rev iew It would probably be a worthwhile project to port the PICkit 2 firmware to the PICkit 3. I'm not aware of anyone working on this, but I'll try it if I get a 3. Regards, Mark markrages@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC markrages@... -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist |
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Re: eevblog reviews the PICkit 3
by solarwind
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Mark Rages <markrages@...> wrote:
> An excellent, entertaining review of the PICkit 3. Video, contains > strong language! > > http://www.eevblog.com/2009/10/21/eevblog-39-pickit-3-programmerdebugger-review > > It would probably be a worthwhile project to port the PICkit 2 > firmware to the PICkit 3. I'm not aware of anyone working on this, > but I'll try it if I get a 3. I wouldn't consider that strong language, but the review was indeed very good. I'm sure we can port the old firmware to PICKIT3 or even write our own. Or I bet you could still buy PICKIT2 knockoffs on ebay and add device support for them. Even better, there are schematics to build your own PICKIT2. I bet for you guys, adding device support shouldn't be a problem. And I agree with the guy. I totally love my PICKIT2. The logic analyzer and the built in UART terminal is indispensable. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist |
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Re: eevblog reviews the PICkit 3
by Funny N.
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Thanks for the video link. That's basically a summary of most of PK3 users' experience.
Overall, the PK3 is kind of a hybrid of PK2 and ICD2 on hardware level, which is a good thing to have. The major cons on PK3 are: 1. A 3.3V MCU was picked, which makes it hard to interface with all 5V PICs. Please keep in mind, this is a programmer, any PIC can be connected. The 3.3V limit put the hardware designer spending more on the logic shift circuits, which makes the device cost more and got more potential to fail from system point of view. 2. For the moment, the PK3 picked the ICD2 approach on software development, which was a good choice at all. But it can be fixed and change to the way PK2 introduced, but it takes long time. The rumor may be true about PK2 got really small team on both software and hardware design as the video descriped, but the fact is, sometime, smaller team might work more efficiently on communication, brain storm/open mind to different approaches, adopting features from forum wish lists, etc. The PK2 V2.61 GUI releases got our contribution on boosting Programmer-to-GO capability from "256K bytes max" to "4M bytes max". It is just a simple example, how PK2 can be improved from different resources/contributions, even from outside of Microchip. I hope both PK2 and 3 will go well. Maybe there is a PK4 on the way if PK3 doesn't go so well. Funny N. Au Group Electronics, http://www.AuElectronics.com http://www.AuElectronics.com/products http://augroups.blogspot.com/ ________________________________ From: Mark Rages <markrages@...> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. <piclist@...>; pickit-devel@... Sent: Wed, October 21, 2009 3:06:29 PM Subject: [PIC] eevblog reviews the PICkit 3 An excellent, entertaining review of the PICkit 3. Video, contains strong language! http://www.eevblog.com/2009/10/21/eevblog-39-pickit-3-programmerdebugger-review It would probably be a worthwhile project to port the PICkit 2 firmware to the PICkit 3. I'm not aware of anyone working on this, but I'll try it if I get a 3. Regards, Mark markrages@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC markrages@... -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist |
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Re: eevblog reviews the PICkit 3
by CDB-3
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I'm not impressed with this bloke.
1. He can't decide whether to have an English or Australian accent. 2. Far to sensationalist. 3. Insists on shouting at me and emphasising points as though I'm an idiot. He may have some valid points, but he is on ignore as far as I'm concerned. Colin -- cdb, colin@... on 10/22/2009 Web presence: www.btech-online.co.uk Hosted by: www.1and1.co.uk/?k_id=7988359 -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist |
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Re: eevblog reviews the PICkit 3
by Tamas Rudnai
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On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:19 PM, cdb <colin@...> wrote:
> 1. He can't decide whether to have an English or Australian accent. Maybe he just emigrated from London to Sidney a while ago :-) Anyway, I like that video blog, especially the management design rant :-) I agree with him that they should not drop the things that was just work before. PICkit3 should just contain a DC-DC converter on the Vusb and maybe bigger eeproms that also could contain the device scripts but to redesign it and actually make it less useful if a bit weird approach. Anyway, I am happy with PICkit2 and if they discontinue it then probably I will use a clone till they get a better device or change the fw of PICkit3 to have similar device to the predecessor. Tamas > 2. Far to sensationalist. > > 3. Insists on shouting at me and emphasising points as though I'm an > idiot. > > He may have some valid points, but he is on ignore as far as I'm > concerned. > > Colin > -- > cdb, colin@... on 10/22/2009 > > Web presence: www.btech-online.co.uk > > Hosted by: www.1and1.co.uk/?k_id=7988359 > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- /* www.mcuhobby.com */ int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s="/* www.mcuhobby.com */ int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=%s%s%s, q=%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", q="\"",s,q,q,a="\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist |
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