Program the opensensor in Linux

Thanks to Rasmus Jacobsen from Aalborg University for this howto.

Howto program OpenSensor v3 using PICkit2 with firmware >= 2

Makefile can be downloaded here makefile

The following was performed with PICKit firmware version 2.10.0

First: Be sure that you are a member of the usb group. Otherwise nothing will work.

For ubuntu: you need build-essential and libusb-dev.

Then download pk2cmd for linux from home.pacbell.net/theposts/picmicro/pk2cmdLinux-0.6.tar.gz (check for newer version).
Untar the file and modify cmd_app.cpp.
Go to line 151 and set the string PIC to nothing, e.g. substitute
_TCHAR partString[MAX_PATH] = "PIC";
with
_TCHAR partString[MAX_PATH] = "";

Modify Makefile.
Uncomment line 39 if you are using Linux 2.6.x

Compile using make.


Now pk2cmd is ready to run!

To install pk2cmd copy
pk2cmd and PK2DeviceFile.dat to /usr/local/bin


To erase/clear the device
./pk2cmd -pdsPIC30F3013 -erase
check that it was erased
./pk2cmd -pdsPIC30F3013 -clear

To program the device type
./pk2cmd -pdsPIC30F3013 -M -Fthe_file_to_program.hex