You're joking - right?Well I guess this will go on for 100 posts - nice free advert eh?
Imitation is the sincerest -and should I add, most blatant- form of flattery.Probably more for RevEd to get an indication of their huge support for the products they've created. !
Look at the picture on their website: A PCB wrapped into cheap, badly fitting heatshrink instead of an enclosure with the outline of some of the components sticking out - not a model of reliabiliy. Every time you insert the programmer into the PC's USB slot you exert force directly onto the components on the board.womai - I have no interest in them, but how can you say that the uchip clone is "poor quality?"
Difficult to entirely judge the quality without seeing one and looking at the circuit diagram. It's certainly not as well packaged as the official Microchip version and when it comes to "clones" not all are created equally.how can you say that the uchip clone is "poor quality?"
Most things are evolutionary rather than revolutionary and the idea of embedded firmware interpreters goes back to the Intel 8502, possibly further, and may even include some of the early 'size of a warehouse' computers. Many pre-microprocessor mainframes used microcode interpreters which actually execute what we'd see as it's native instruction set, so the idea isn't recent. With the rapid development of technology, introduction of microprocessors, microcontrollers, we've now ended up with the single chip solution of the PICAXE.Once upon a time, someone looked at the ridiculously expensive (but fun toy) of the Basic Stamp and copied the fundamental idea and the cheap picaxe was born.
Well, that explains a lot.You can't buy one anyway.
We were surprised by the response to the article in Nuts & Volts.
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you then have some assurance of compatibility and comfort in knowing the seller will be around tomorrowIf you really want to get an ICSP programmer for raw PIC programming the newer PICKIT3 from MicrochipDirect.com is much better and only a few dollars more for a genuine current programmer/debugger device!
100% agree with you here the pickit2's micro usb socket on the back has me scared it's going to break off the pcb since it's only a surface mount one,For me, I've had problems with the micro-USB connector on the Microchip programmer or supplied cable not being reliable and its software was a real problem as it demanded a screen size greater than my monitor supported thus somewhat unusable in those circumstances.
Perhaps more importantly, would you trust anyone who doesn't publish an address or contact phone number ? Publishing such details is I believe a legal requirement for UK Limited Companies but probably doesn't apply in other jurisdictions.I look at it more simply: would I trust my money with someone who uses greengrocers' apostrophes?