@zach - You could use a Basic Stamp Homework board as a PIC programmer, but you'd need some external hardware to switch the programming voltage·and it wouldn't be a very good PIC programmer, partly because there isn't much memory in the Stamp (and it would be very slow).· You'd be much better off using something like a PICkit1 or PICkit2 from Microchip.· They're cheap, work well with a PC (or a Mac), and come with lots of software, documentation, etc.
That doesn't mean that you could copy the Basic interpreter into other PICs.· It's protected against that sort of thing.
The PICkit 1 isn't a lot of use (it's basically an evaluation board for the low-end chips) and the PICkit 2 doesn't support the newer devices. The PICkit 3 might be a better buy.
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The PIC16F57 From Parallax has an interpreter burnt in to it to use Tokens from the Parallax complier. A PIC from anywhere else doesn't have this.
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That doesn't mean that you could copy the Basic interpreter into other PICs.· It's protected against that sort of thing.
Leon
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