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Programming the PIC
Over the summer, I worked with a Cerebellum, a development board for the PIC16F877 developed at CMU, and it uses the same serial port for both programming and serial communications. You just leave the PIC in it's socket, and the board has I/O pins on it. I imagine a similar setup will be used by Innovation First (considering that having everyone removing the chip, programming it, and putting it back in will probably result in several snapped pins, if not chips, during the heat of the competition)
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