A while ago I received a package of hardware and software produced by eLabtronics in Australia. The company offers an ezSystem STEMSEL Inventors Tool Kit that includes a STEMSEL PIC-programming board ...

[Giorgio Vazzana] turned his Raspberry Pi into a PIC programmer using a rather small collection of common parts. It supports about a dozen different chips from the 16F family. But we’d guess … ...

Perhaps a PIC programmer roundup is in need of writing. The Code: The code for this how-to is a kind of hello world program using LEDs. ... For a PICkit 2 programmer programming a PIC16F887: ...

For non-techie individuals, programming languages are totally from another planet. Who cares about the complex patterns and codes of SQL, Java, C++, or Ruby--and the long list goes on? We should.