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#314751 - 07/10/2008 01:41 Cheap PICkit 2 Debug Express kit for people in the UK
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
Not sure if anybody is interested but you can get a PICKit 2 Debug Express for £9.99 inc shipping when it usually costs £42.65 with a coupon from Everyday Practical Electronics

The kit is a PICkit 2 debugger/programmer dongle and a PIC16F887 on a protoboard.

Go to www.microchipdirect.com and add DV164121 to your cart after changing the country to UK. When you check out, enter EPEPIC08 as the discount coupon and it'll drop the price of the kit to 28p. Together with shipping, it should come out to be £9.99.

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#314754 - 07/10/2008 06:54 Re: Cheap PICkit 2 Debug Express kit for people in the UK [Re: tman]
LittleBlueThing
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Registered: 11/01/2002
Posts: 612
Loc: Reading, UK
I've always meant to try PIC...

But I fear some detail is wrong frown

DV164121 comes out at 28.08 GBP and the coupon code doesn't do anything...

http://www.microchipdirect.com/productsearch.aspx?Keywords=DV164121
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#314755 - 07/10/2008 10:54 Re: Cheap PICkit 2 Debug Express kit for people in the UK [Re: LittleBlueThing]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
I just tried it and it looks like you have to log in first for some reason.

Go to the site, set it to UK, create an account, add the kit, type in the code and then checkout.

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#314759 - 07/10/2008 13:33 Re: Cheap PICkit 2 Debug Express kit for people in the UK [Re: LittleBlueThing]
Schido
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Originally Posted By: LittleBlueThing
I've always meant to try PIC...


I still have an unused cypress psoc thingy here.
Or is that not pic?
Couldn't find anything to do with it, or find the time to learn this stuff.

http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/288648
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#314760 - 07/10/2008 13:40 Re: Cheap PICkit 2 Debug Express kit for people in the UK [Re: Schido]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
Originally Posted By: Schido
Originally Posted By: LittleBlueThing
I've always meant to try PIC...


I still have an unused cypress psoc thingy here.
Or is that not pic?
Couldn't find anything to do with it, or find the time to learn this stuff.

http://empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/288648

Nope. Not PIC.

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#314808 - 08/10/2008 13:47 Re: Cheap PICkit 2 Debug Express kit for people in the UK [Re: tman]
LittleBlueThing
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Registered: 11/01/2002
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Loc: Reading, UK
Thanks - I'd already created an account but I logged out and tried again and it went from £28.08 to 28p as you said smile

I guess I'll have a PIC programmer soon then... hope there's a linux interface; I guess I should have looked!
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#314809 - 08/10/2008 14:34 Re: Cheap PICkit 2 Debug Express kit for people in the UK [Re: LittleBlueThing]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
Looks like you're in luck. Microchip helpfully provide source so people have made it work under Linux.

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#314823 - 08/10/2008 18:52 Re: Cheap PICkit 2 Debug Express kit for people in the UK [Re: tman]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
Nice one, ordered, hope it's more use than my two PSOC kits!
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#314896 - 11/10/2008 16:09 Re: Cheap PICkit 2 Debug Express kit for people in the UK [Re: andym]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
The kit arrived today for me.

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#314897 - 11/10/2008 16:18 Re: Cheap PICkit 2 Debug Express kit for people in the UK [Re: andym]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
Originally Posted By: andym
Nice one, ordered, hope it's more use than my two PSOC kits!

Ah yes but the PSoC kits were free smile

I do use the mini programmer dongle out of the PSoC kit though. Much easier than lugging around the full ICE kit.

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#314899 - 11/10/2008 19:51 Re: Cheap PICkit 2 Debug Express kit for people in the UK [Re: tman]
andym
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Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
Mine's due to be delivered to work, so maybe it'll give me something to look forward to on Monday morning!
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#314969 - 14/10/2008 09:49 Re: Cheap PICkit 2 Debug Express kit for people in the UK [Re: andym]
sn00p
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Registered: 24/07/2002
Posts: 618
Loc: South London
Originally Posted By: andym
Mine's due to be delivered to work, so maybe it'll give me something to look forward to on Monday morning!


(BEWARE! PIC RANT!)

For me, "look forward to" and "PIC" don't ever appear in the same sentance! laugh

I'm not even sure how people cope with the MPLAB, it's awful, you maximise a source file and the project workspace explorer maximises along with the output window because they've implemented those as MDI children too.

Don't get me started on the microchip C compiler either, it's crap - it doesn't work. I don't want to sit there and analyse every mathematical statement to ensure that it's generated the correct code.

On the bright side, they have a shed load of USB endpoints which is why we selected one recently, but I nearly tore my hair out getting to the final stage. If only my processor of choice had more than 4 endpoints.




Have fun!!! laugh laugh laugh

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#314996 - 14/10/2008 17:50 Re: Cheap PICkit 2 Debug Express kit for people in the UK [Re: sn00p]
andym
carpal tunnel

Registered: 17/01/2002
Posts: 3996
Loc: Manchester UK
It was waiting for me, but I don't know when I'll have the time to fart around with it.
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Andy M

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