EPROM and/or EEPROM and/or Pic programmer

Hopefully you guys can offer me something at a nice price since I'm a poor college student...anything will work as long as it can program one of the above, don't have a priority as to which one but I need all three.

Know nothing about brands but if it read/writes correctly I don't mind. It can be old as dirt requiring I hack together a new cable for it and then hack drivers for Windows XP (or bust out a Win98 box). Purty please?

 

What you're asking doesn't say what you are looking for. It could cost you $50 if you want to program old eproms up to 48 pins DIP (anything from nes to n64 chips) or $5000 if you want to program modern chips.

 

What are you really looking for? It depends on what you are trying to do, both PIC and EEPROM programmers come in various styles and form factors. You will not be able to easily find a all-in-one device for cheap.

If money is an issue, you can build your own EEPROM programmer or PIC programmer cheaper than you buying a fully assembled one. There are schematics all over the Internet for this.

I've used the PIC programmers from microEngineering labs and they're nice little package but may be out of price range

 

Yup, I'm afraid it depends on what chips you want to program. You'll invariably find that you can do some of the chips you want to do, but need adaptors to do others.

If you want something cheap for old chips, then try a Data I/O 29B. They turn up on eBay regularly for cheap ($50-100)

If you want the latest programmer that'll do a lot (but you'll still need adaptors!), then get something like an Elnec BeeProg+... which is going to set you back about $1500.

 

I've had pretty good luck with those Willem cheapos from ebay/china, but that all depends if you want to drop the 30 bucks (plus an adapter if needed).

Just sayin'.

 

Oh dear! You should avoid the cheapo Chinese programmers... they can have bad effects!! Willem aren't much better than any other, in fact I wouldn't touch them.

I like my 29B, personally

 

Programming EPROMs/Flash? Get a Willem ($30-60)
Programming MCU? Get the respective MCU ISP/ICD ($20-60)
Programming CPLD/FPGA? Get JTAG cables ($10-50)
Programming SPLD? Get a mid-class Chinese programmer ($100-200)
Programming more obscure PLD? Get a high-end Western programmer or track down the master programming unit ($500-??????)