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Written by Evan
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Saturday, 04 November 2006 |
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I built an ICD2 clone, from the PiCS design rev B from icd2clone.com, which is based on the information in the forum thread that started it all on EDAboard. 

I suffered the misfortune of almost completely constructing my first one before realizing that acrobat reader had scaled the pattern when printing it, so the whole board was at about 90% scale and was thus useless. Getting the board working with MPLAB also proved to be a challenge, involving uninstalling/reinstalling drivers a few times, burning the bootloader firmwares into the PICs several times, etc. I ended up adding a couple of 0.1uF capacitors directly across the Vdd and gnd lines under each PIC (I used 0805 SMD caps, they fit perfectly) and it was soon after adding them that I finally got the board working in MPLAB, so I suspect that their addition made a difference.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 04 November 2006 )
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