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donmck

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Posted: 03:14am 14 Jul 2011

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vasi said Hi Don,

I didn't intended to send something. I just remembered that I solved (some how) for me the problem on burning a PIC32MX795F512H with my Pickit2 programmer.
I said "some how" because I don't have that chip for tests. I also didn't had much than a Microchip forum and the links to the program. But you can see that here is a guy which succeeded and can give us more information.

Anyway, what a restless man can see on them:
On the project page (on google sites), you can see some hints about how to use the program in editing the PKDeviceFile.dat.
Also, in the quote posted by me (some posts form the Microchip forum with clues regarding to subject) which are posts separated with lines, on the second post, you can see how to prepare the file to be able to burn the Maximite PIC:

[quote]
I only have the PIC32MX795 series to test with so I will only post the
settings for that.

First duplicate item PIC32MX460F512L from the parts list then change to these
settings:

PartName: PIC32MX795F512H
DeviceID: 0x0000E000
ProgramMem: 0x00020BFC

Thanks dougy83 for making a wonderful program, and xiaofan for helping out
with my issues.
[/quote]

How to duplicate a PIC description in order to modify it, I think we can see on the editor's project page.

P.S. Generally, I make DVDs for my own use and for my personal archive with interesting stuff I found on internet and store it on categories. I did this with those posts from Microchip forum and copied them into a text file named "hints.txt" along with the archived .dat editor for later use. That day has yet to come.

OK, thanks Vasi, no problems, and thank you.

I'll leave it for now then.

Cheers Don...

https://www.dontronics.com

jman

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Posted: 06:45am 14 Jul 2011

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Tested dat file

Regards
John2011-07-14_164515_PK2DeviceFile.zip

vasi

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Posted: 06:53am 14 Jul 2011

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Thank you John! Downloaded.

Vasi

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jman

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Posted: 06:52am 21 Jul 2011

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PCB's arrived today and look perfect. Thanks
I will post a pic once i have completed one.

John

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Posted: 09:53am 27 Jul 2011

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Howdy all, still have some boards left if anyone desires.

Ben

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Posted: 07:27am 30 Jul 2011

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trippyben said Howdy all, still have some boards left if anyone desires.

Ben

I could use a couple of boards for hacking around. PM me with a price inc. postage to Melbourne.

Edit: Uh, and Paypal details ... :-)

Thanks,

Rob
Edited by haiqu 2011-07-31

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haiqu

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Posted: 01:19am 01 Aug 2011

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After buying those two extra boards on the weekend I figured I needed to get hold of some parts to fill them, since all my bits are in long-term storage. Logged onto Digikey and after hours of finding correct part numbers and filling in the order form it turns out they want to slug you for courier delivery at $34.00 - fooey to that!

So, on to plan B. Bought as much as I could off eBay last night. Cost was about the same over all but now I have enough bits to build about 25 of them, which should keep me going for a while. ROFL. Only component I couldn't find was the correct (i.e. weird and non-standard) style of SD Card connector specified, and since nothing else will fit I've decided to go USB on both of them. I'll still have Don's SMD version with the SD adapter, so the card itself won't go to waste.

Tried to buy one instrument case and the two adapters from Altronics (they seem to have stocks again) but the $20.00 minimum order thing put me off somewhat.

Rob

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jman

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Posted: 04:15am 01 Aug 2011

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have you seen this thread
http://www.thebackshed.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3812&PN =2

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haiqu

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Posted: 07:11am 01 Aug 2011

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jman said have you seen this thread
http://www.thebackshed.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3812&PN =2

John

Yup.

I bit the bullet and put the order with Altronics today. So, one of my boards is going to have ALL the standard bits on it, including 7805 power, wall-wart socket, jumpers and all. Had to find a way to spend the $20.00 somehow.

At least their shipping was reasonable.

Rob

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haiqu

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Posted: 06:16am 05 Aug 2011

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Hi Ben,

Boards arrived today, very nice indeed. They're so tiny!

Rob

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haiqu

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Posted: 06:02pm 22 Aug 2011

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Finally got enough parts together to build up those PCBs tonight. Haven't had so much fun in years! I'm still missing the 100nF caps, 8MHz crystals and PS2 sockets but they've been on their way from China for about 3 weeks so should arrive by Friday.

One unit is going to be stock standard with MMBASIC and the original case, the other is for playing around with. I'd post a proud photo of my handiwork but the darned phone/camera battery is flat again.

Rob

edit: Couldn't resist, I charged it up...

Edited by haiqu 2011-08-24

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vasi

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Posted: 02:40pm 06 Nov 2011

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Hi,

To all Pickit2 programmer owners. It seems that the best solution in programming any of the pic32 microcontrollers using Pickit2 programmer come from Serge V., the author of RetroBSD.

pic32prog.googlecode.com

Thank you Serge!

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Olimex
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Posted: 03:33pm 06 Nov 2011

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interesting he seems to also managed to program PIC32 with our JTAG adapter :)

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