wifi-pic-programmer

An ESP8266 powered Microchip PIC programmer.

Firmware

The firmware is implemented at top of the ESP8266 NON-OS SDK V3.

Build firmware

Follow this instruction to set up your environment.

Then:

cd path/to/wifi-pic-programmer
make flash_map2

Other available flash maps:

make flash_map3 
make flash_map4

For other information about ESP8266 flash maps check here

Firmware first boot

After flash and restart, you may found a wifi ssid: WifiPicProg_xxxxxx.

Connect to it with password esp-8266.

Browse the http://192.168.43.1 and configure the device to connet to your Wifi router.

Test Wifi connection

use:

avahi-browse -var

to discover your new device, you may see an output like this:

Server version: avahi 0.7; Host name: XXXXXXX.local
E Ifce Prot Name                                          Type                 Domain
: Cache exhausted
+ wlp108s0 IPv4 WifiPicProg                                   _WifiPicProgServer._tcp local
= wlp108s0 IPv4 WifiPicProg                                   _WifiPicProgServer._tcp local
   hostname = [WifiPicProg.local]
   address = [192.168.5.107]
   port = [80]
   txt = ["version = 1.0.1" "vendor = Espressif"]
: All for now

That's it, the try the python tool to program your PIC.

ESP8266 GPIO