[Jeremy] got tired of plugging jumper wires into a breadboard when programming his ATMega8 (including the ‘168 and ‘328) microcontrollers. The solution?

No problem, he figured out how to flash the PIC24FJ using an ATmega8. To get started, he grabbed a copy of the flash programming specifications from Microchip.

ATmega8 microcontroller has 23 programmable input/output (I/O) pins which can be used for interfacing with external world. It is possible to configure them as input or output by setting a particular ...