MicrocipPICprogrammer and a simple Pong TV game
For a while ago I was giving lectures based on Microchip PIC. At my work I had of course a commersial programmer,
but I got a little curious of building one of my own. I found a simple solution called JDM-programmer.
The original layout was only able to program a 18 pin chip, and I created an extensio to 8/24/40-pins.
The PCB is shown in figure 1.
To download the assembled program you can use a serial cable, (USB to serial will do)
The programs I used can be found here: IC-prog. and here PonyPROG
I also found a project that created an PONG game to connect to the TV, and desided
to build this and use my homebuilt JDM-programmer to download the software.
The Pong module is shown in figure 2 and in figure 3 you can see booth connected.

figure 1: JDM programmer with extension

Figure 2: Pong TV game module with programmming cable in the middle

Figure 3: JDM programmer with the Pong TV game module