Note: Before using this adapter, you must remove the chip inside the HOODMICRO from the DIP socket. Otherwise, the two microcontrollers will be fighting each other for access to the signal lines.

Using this simple adapter for the HOODMICRO, it should be possible to program most chips that WinPic supports (such as PIC16F84, PIC16F628, etc). Similar adapters could be made to support PIC chips with more pins or different pinouts. So far, I have not been able to program dsPIC chips with this programmer. The dsPIC chips draw too much current to be powered by the serial port.

This adapter is not included with the HOODMICRO Development Kit, but should be easy for anyone to build on a perfboard.