i want to build a simple controller for my project, its a first time i trying to build somthink like thet so i have no expirians .
in this forum i found that link for a programing tool for pic16f877.
http://home.earthlink.net/~botronics/index/pickey.html
but i have some questions about it, there is a number of diferent versions of it (one is simple the second is more complex)and i dont understand the the diferense ,what are the benifits of the complex one?
there is a note that sais that its important to use a bypass capacitors but i cant find an explonation about it ( wat is it and how to use it ) and a last litle thing, there is a resistor and a diode conecting to the mclr leg of the pic the resistor is 10k but thay didnt say anithing about diode, what can i use(wat tipe)?
it will be a great help for meif you can answere some of this questions.
thnx.