I might just be blind and not finding what I need, cause believe me I've looked. I've had my new PicKit 2 for 4 days and have yet to get anything but an error message on the PICKit 2 programmer software when trying to do so much as read data off the microcontroller, let alone program one. So I succumb to the need to ask AAC for help.
I've programmed plenty of pics in the past with my off-brand programmer via USB which has the handy slot for accepting a number of different PICs of varying pin counts, but the PICKit 2 has only the ICSP connectors, which I've tried to interface with a PIC to no avail. So my question is, can someone point me in the right direction here on how to program a MCU using the PICKit 2? Do I need to build a programmer that plugs into the PICKit? Not a problem if I do.
I've programmed plenty of pics in the past with my off-brand programmer via USB which has the handy slot for accepting a number of different PICs of varying pin counts, but the PICKit 2 has only the ICSP connectors, which I've tried to interface with a PIC to no avail. So my question is, can someone point me in the right direction here on how to program a MCU using the PICKit 2? Do I need to build a programmer that plugs into the PICKit? Not a problem if I do.