Since, you can safely power the mini development board (at this time) by the PICkit™ 2 Microcontroller Programmer itself, remember to switch off the mini development board’s power supply during ICSP ...

The program memory is written using Microchip's In-Circuit Serial Programming (ICSP) technology. ICSP uses only two I/O pins. Designers, then, can program the MCU after the chip has been installed.

The programming software bit bangs the pins with a write time of less than eight seconds per 1k words of program data. So far this does not work with ICSP, but he plans to add that feature in a ...