is it possible to program a pic16f with an arduino?

[Gakex]

I have a pic16f84a and an Arduino Leonardo board

[ecat]

Of course it is possible to program a pic with an Arduino or an AVR with an Arduino or even a PicKit2. The question is: How and is there an existing example?

Well, today is your Lucky Day:  http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,92929.0.html

[brainwash]

I did not know that was possible. Is there any way to fake or get rid of the 12v supply? I' thinking something like a voltage multiplier driven by a pin.

[c4757p]

A standard Dickson charge pump works nicely for this. I'd suggest using all ceramic caps and driving around 10 kHz. I actually recently tested this exact circuit for a very similar purpose, so I will verify that it works quite well with these component values.

[mariush]

or the classic mc34063 switching controller ... dave even made video about it

[c4757p]

I'd probably consider a boost converter with an inductor and a dedicated controller IC overkill. The PIC16F series takes a maximum of 1 mA from V_PP - easily handled by a couple caps and a couple diodes. It's nice to be able to integrate something into the MCU and save on parts. The whole charge pump will probably cost less than the inductor.


Only slightly off topic: I'm doing the opposite. I'm designing an AVR dev board with an integrated programmer (among other stuff) for myself, and the most economic choice of "master" microcontroller was... a PIC!    So it's an AVR board with a PIC16F1527. I feel like I'm doing something slightly unholy.

[brainwash]

I have forgotten about this: http://www.romanblack.com/smps/pic-smps.htm

[Gakex]

I get a conclusion:

it is possible but there is not enough information out there because buy a pic programmer (10 dolar) and use the proper IDE for this chip is also ideal, no?
by the way Arduino has a technique to load a sketch into an Atmega chip http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=1706

I just see this clock and I wanted to try it out : http://www.josepino.com/?anp-1224hr-led-clock1
   

[RPBCACUEAIIBH]

interesting... I have to try the pic as well...

I get a conclusion:

it is possible but there is not enough information out there because buy a pic programmer (10 dolar) and use the proper IDE for this chip is also ideal, no?
by the way Arduino has a technique to load a sketch into an Atmega chip http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=1706

I just see this clock and I wanted to try it out : http://www.josepino.com/?anp-1224hr-led-clock1
 

That would be ATTiny, I don't really know if it works with mega, and I have a self made EEPROM library for the tiny, since the arduino EEPROM library doesn't really works on ATTiny...
it works but it's a little messy... I'll try to clean it up as soon as I have time for it, and I'll upload it soon...
I also noticed that the ATTiny's eeprom will be deleted by default when it is programmed, so I modified the bootloader as well to prevent that... I'll upload that as well...