OLD PIC Microcontroller Programmers

These are units that are no longer available. See PIC Microcontroller Programmers for current programmers.

1. http://www.newfoundelectronics.com/ Jim Roberts - Newfound Electronics - PICSTART PLUS - MPLAB compatible programmers. Also, conversion kits for most other programmers to allow them to be used directly with MPLAB
   • WARP-13 programmer for all 12C, 14C, 16C5x,16CXX PICs, MPLAB compatible, some ISP , win32.
     David Lei asks: " What is the most reliable/trustable reseller from which to buy a Warp 13a?" +Answer: NONE The Warp 13 is no longer made. Newfound electronics has not licenced the right to make this programmer to anyone.
      
   • PRIME-17 programmer for all PICs MPLAB compatible, ISP

2. $35 (+ shipping)The PIC Elmer 160 Project Board is a kit that includes a serial-port PIC programmer. http://amqrp.org/elmer160/board/ (2004-08: no longer sold ? But full schematics, documentation, etc. are still online here).
3. http://www.bubblesoftonline.com/demo/ROMzap.html Tony Nixons free ROMZap bootloader for 16F87x [Ed: It Rocks!] can program the boot code with a "less than $5" circuit and the rapid load your code into the chip after that. It can also sort of do a polling ICD-like code and register watch. And it can display A/D readings on a Windows DVM and generate code.
    
4. Tony Nixons' Pocket Programmer
    
5. Tony Nixons "The Engine" can be made to program just about anything. Software available for most 16x uC;s and the 93C56.  The engine. temp at: http://210.8.30.173 normally at http://www.bubblesoftonline.com/engine.html. Source has been released.
    
6. Tony Nixons ASCII programmer. Program a 16F84 with 4 resistors, 4 diodes (1 zenor), 2 capasitors,  a NAND gate and a 13v battery <GRIN>. Free software or write your own (simple). Available at: http://www.bubblesoftonline.com/projects/prog.html (cached 200003071344)
    
7. http://www.voti.nl/wisp/ WISP : Wouter's In - System Programmer for the PIC 16f84 Margining support, multiple devices can be daisy chained on one serial port, obsoleted by Wisp628.