Is it possible to program a pic with the basic stamp 2?

Question

I see that the a lot of pickit 2 revisions have only one or two chips, so I was hoping to use my basic stamp to basically emulate those chips.

In other words is it possible to put some code into a BS2 to use serout or something similar to program a pic.

Answer 1

It is possible to program a pic microcontroller

using BS2 is you know the chips protocol and

BS2 has enough memory to store your program

including the protocol instructions. It's easier to

use your pc's  parallel port with something like

the pic16f84 mounted on a breadboard. In visual

basic I wrote a simple program that uses only

4 parallel port pins with "in circuit" programming.

Serout would not work in this case, but  an instruction

like: BS2: pins PORTB,b'00110011' would. The binary value

would be determined by the command or data you

are sending.

Further comment:

If the particular pic allows "one pin" serial bit stream

programming, then Serout should work. Otherwise,

extra external hardware can be added to the breadboard

to make it work.

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