
That “high voltage” signal was provided by a PICkit or similar programmer. I think the Curiosity is a great way around this issue. This could not be done at the time with Microchip microcontrollers – or at least bootstrapping a programmer was harder – since they needed a 12V source when programming. These were the pre-Arduino days and I didn’t want to invest in a proper programmer until making sure I liked the chip family. I started off with Atmel chips because you could program them with a parallel port. I haven’t really done any PIC development. However, since we do have this relationship we asked if they would throw in a few extra boards that we could give away and they obliged. As you may know, Microchip is one of the sponsors of the 2015 Hackaday Prize, but that partnership does not include this review. I requested a sample board out of my own curiosity. Yesterday I got my hands on one of the first “pilot program” demo units and spent some time working with it. I had my first look at this at Bay Area Maker Faire back in May but was asked not to publicize the hardware since it wasn’t officially released yet.

So I don't know what is happening and why the cg- files aren't being patched.Microchip has unveiled a new dev board called the Curiosity Development Board. They look the same, at least they have the same hash.

This is the xclm i was using, but I also used the xclm in, after some search. I'm curious if I'd get the same results than you using the same xlcm (just in case mine is not the same). only 2 files patched.Ĭould you point to the exact post/link of the xclm you are using? or upload yours to some site to download. Update: Installed 1.45 in default path, same result. Update: I also tried with 1.44, installed in custom path, same result with only those 2 files patched.

As I said I had no problem with previous versions. I'm using W7 Home Premium 64b, admin rights, etc. The only difference with your image is I'm not using the default path for installing. I uninstalled and reinstalled, and used the last xclm i found in the thread, just in case mine is not updated. The result is in the picture below which shows that all 4 files are patched. Just from habit, I don't know if it's needed anymore. In my case the only thing that is not showed here is that I overwritten also the xclm.exe from MPIDE/BIN folder with the fixed file. You made me curious and I uninstalled the XC8 1.45 compiler and reinstalled it.
