Private bot - which PIC microcontroller?

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by Adam Y.

No it isn't the only way. Look at the documentation again for the Butterfly. You can either program it using an ISP or a JTAG programmer. High voltage parallel programing is also supported but I have no idea why anyone would want to go that route unless somehow you screw up the fuse settings. Some assembly is required though because all of the ports are missing the header pins. I've used JTAG to program microcontrollers before. It's so nice seeing the program run and watching the registers change on the computer.
I didn't actually say it should be placed on a robot. The dragon is just a bare bone pcboard with no way of mounting anything to it without some more assembly.
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I never said you did say to mount it on the robot. I am just that that is one down side. I know what the dragon and STK are. I have used them both and own an STK.

I didn't know about the JTAG because I have never used it. From the stuff I hear about it I should start using it to at least debug programs. From my understanding you can run the program on the uC step by step from the computer?

-John