Made this in order to test the samples I (again) got from microchip… (coolest guys in the world.. If I ever make something sellable in huge numbers with a microcontroller, it will surely be a PIC .

I include the brd file of eagle so you can make it yourself (it is tested that it works). If you want you can print the bottom layer on a laser printer and then iron the paper on the back side of the board so you can have the pinouts printed on the top side..

files as always here

At least more serious than the one I had before.. The pickit2 from microchip (I felt guilty for all the free samples I got so I bought the original, but there are clones on, you guessed it, e-bay!!!). It can program a much wider range of chips, namely the 16Fxxx and 18Fxxx and also the 24Fxxx, dsPIC30Fxxx and dsPIC33Fxxx (and the PIC32 but I never got to try it) . The good thing on these chips is that the dsPIC33 have Digital to Analog conversion on board at 16bit and can go to more than 110KHz sampling rates. MUST-TRY!!!!