Evan, there will be a moment in your life when you will do things just for fun, no matter that nobody will need them except you.
On Tue, Aug 6, 2024, 21:56 'Evan Venn' via jallib <[email protected]> wrote: > I would ask why? > > The PICs are essentially not being developed. The number of products > being released are very low. Two this year. > > Microchip committed to supporting the products in March 2022. They have > given no commitment to new PICs. > > Northern Software have ceased all PIC related developments. > > We will only develop new capabilities under a specific Statement of Work > with contractually bound payments. > > We have offered all our source code back to Microchip for release as Open > Source with support for new PICs. We did this as a test of strategic > direction... the response was 'not our strategic direction'. > > My advice think about any investment of time. > > GCBASIC strategic direction. AVRDX microcontroller. This should tell > you even more. :-) > > On Tue, 6 Aug 2024, 19:08 [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I posted this question on Jallist and Jallib. >> >> Some time ago Rob Hamerling mentioned that the new version of MPLABX will >> no longer support the PICKit3. You can use other software (PICKitPlus, >> PICKitMinus) but these are all Windows applications and not usable for >> Linux users. There are also other open source programmers like Openprog: >> http://openprog.altervista.org/OP_eng.html#Top >> >> I like to keep things simple and so I started JAPP (Just Another PIC >> Programmer) to see if I could make a simple programmer only for PIC >> Microcontrollers. The idea is that it connects to a USB port and does not >> act like an HID but as a COM port. In order to control is you just send >> commands in text to this comport. Works for Linux, Mac and Windows. The >> only thing you need is Python as to send some info over (or you make your >> own application). I am just starting and it will take quite some time to >> complete this. I have some help from Rob Hamerling who created a Python >> script to extract the relevant programming info for all PICs from the >> MPLABX XML files, the same files that are used to generate the JAL device >> files. >> >> Since it will take quite some time to finish this - it is a project I >> sometimes spend some time on - I could develop it in an Agile way and >> upload the next version to a GitHub account I have, each time supporting >> more PICs. The only thing you would need is a second PIC that you program >> that replaces the PIC on the board. Currently I am using a PIC18F26J50 >> since I need more than 32k of ROM. I also want to make a PCB layout to >> ease the build of it. >> >> I was wondering if there is any interest in this programmer. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Rob >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "jallib" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/bf50d112-9173-478e-bd71-f6efaa6cb348n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/bf50d112-9173-478e-bd71-f6efaa6cb348n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jallib" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/CADfhC%2BJfOf8R_mQXfyQ2Cdwbwr1rhdTcbYw_YhZtbFCiT93%2BaA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/CADfhC%2BJfOf8R_mQXfyQ2Cdwbwr1rhdTcbYw_YhZtbFCiT93%2BaA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jallib/CAM%2Bj4quMMp2iNHX8sS6k0%3DNNeY1Xxu26wkBo%2BDq9EEziXRh1iw%40mail.gmail.com.
