Btw, how's going with the Raspberry pi hat programmer? On Wed, Aug 7, 2024, 05:43 vsurducan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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%2Bj4qv1Sk3-LiGZs8GPgoUcQWQCTjDXYstGcRyH1MbPonSO5Q%40mail.gmail.com.
