I will show you,how I made it in home step by step.
1. Preparing the PCB
At first time,I made pickit on a vero board.I realized that it can use to programme PIC10F, PIC12F5xx, PIC16F5xx, PIC12F6xx, PIC16F, PIC18F, PIC24.Then I moved to create pickit2 on a PCB.
#schematic of the pickit2 lite is as follows
Using Proteus,Eagle cad or any cad software you can make the PCB layout of the schematic.I used following technique to get the pcb layout to copper plated plate.
#pcb layout of the pickit2
2.Inserting components and soldering
There is an inductor on the circuit which is hard to find in local market .I ordered them from ebay.It took only a week to receive me.
If you cant find an inductor in local market,don't worry there is an alternative in your old phone charger,radio or in DVD player.Any inductor which having an inductance of more than 330uh, can be used to replace the 680uh indutor in the above schematic.
Use a 28 pin IC base to mount the pic 18F256 to the circuit.Never solder it directly to the circuit board.Heat generated from by the soldering iron can damage the IC. Another important thing is,data cable should not be more than 1m.(sometimes may work).Because I haven't inserted the ferrite bead which is used to suppress high frequency noise in electronic circuits.
