electronics nut needed (microcontroller programmimg)

[DJ-Ready]

Anyone knows stuff about PIC programming?
I found this neat little article about ambient light on your PC and I'd love to build something like that ... the circuit itself is no problem at all I just have no idea how to program the microcontrollers... even the program needed is supplied in that article but I don't know how to actually get them onto the controller

this is the acticle http://lx.divxstation.com/article.asp?aId=151

some neat demo videos

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so .. any electronic nerds here that could possibly help me out?

 

[weeman]

Well I'm not really an "electronic nerd" but you would have to buy a PIC serial adapter or something similar.

 

[Skiwan]

surely you could achieve the same effect using a projector as your second monitor and reducing the focus? i dunno, but it looks cool

 

[weeman]

wouldnt be the same

 

[DJ-Ready]

Yeah there is such a think linked in that article (http://www.olimex.com/dev/pic-pg1.html) but how do I actually connect the chip to it? Do I just plug the chip into the other end of that serial adapter or what?
Or do I need an additional programming board to do that?

I've done some CMOS programming in the past but thats like 8 years ago and I don't really remember much about it -.-

 

[Spunky]

Ouch, talk about sore eyes with that ****.

 

[DJ-Ready]

after some research I found out that a pic programming board is actually quite easy to assemble ...
So yeah, I've got everything I need now .. except the hardware haha