Making A Pickit 3 Clone

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Making A Pickit 3 Clone

After using the Microchip tools to program and debug the projects I work on, I wondered about creating my own programming/debugging module that I could put on my own boards – just like Microchip does with their starter kits and such.

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I decided to use the open-source EDA program Kicad to design a 4 layer SMD project. I had only used it for 2 layer PTH designs previously, but wanted to see how it would do in something a little more complex than the ones I had already done. Here is a link to the completed Kicad project files

Sybex23 has shared the board on OSH Park:

PICKIT 3 Programmer

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Order from OSH Park

Making A Pickit 3 Clone

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