Hello there,
I'd like to start for a test, but I still be afraid to brick my pickit3 (PK3 for short).
Sorry but I didn't find a document to make the first steps. The program online help has little to tell how to make the PK3 to work. I probably understood that it will take to load a new firmware onto the PK3 mcu.
Then , I hope to find how to write the first chip using the new firmware.
Second matter, It will possible to program the ATmega328P. I suppose that the PK3 MCU can use the MOSI, MISO and CLK. Also the avrdude recognize a pickit2, but nothing sure about the PK3.
As the news are saying, there should be the chance to program the new PICmicro with the different method, introduced by microchip. I presume it's very similar to the way to program an Arduino.
I suppose that PK3 is just a MCU with a bootloader packed with an USB stack to allow to write any firmware. Then the firmware has few options to interface the button, three LEDs and the 6 pins going to the outside world.
This is the question, is there a firmware able to program AVR chips, by any chance ?
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As one of the experts on the PK2 and PK3 programmers the PK3 does not have the capabilities. You could rewrite the whole of the PK3 operating system but a AVR programmer is a few bucks on eBay then there is no real need for a total rewrite of the PK3 operating system.
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Last edit: Anobium 2023-02-20
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Hello there,
I'd like to start for a test, but I still be afraid to brick my pickit3 (PK3 for short).
Sorry but I didn't find a document to make the first steps. The program online help has little to tell how to make the PK3 to work. I probably understood that it will take to load a new firmware onto the PK3 mcu.
Then , I hope to find how to write the first chip using the new firmware.
Second matter, It will possible to program the ATmega328P. I suppose that the PK3 MCU can use the MOSI, MISO and CLK. Also the avrdude recognize a pickit2, but nothing sure about the PK3.
As the news are saying, there should be the chance to program the new PICmicro with the different method, introduced by microchip. I presume it's very similar to the way to program an Arduino.
I suppose that PK3 is just a MCU with a bootloader packed with an USB stack to allow to write any firmware. Then the firmware has few options to interface the button, three LEDs and the 6 pins going to the outside world.
This is the question, is there a firmware able to program AVR chips, by any chance ?
Simple answer. No,
A PK3 cannot program a MEGA328P. A PK2 can.
As one of the experts on the PK2 and PK3 programmers the PK3 does not have the capabilities. You could rewrite the whole of the PK3 operating system but a AVR programmer is a few bucks on eBay then there is no real need for a total rewrite of the PK3 operating system.
Search eBay for USBASP
Last edit: Anobium 2023-02-20