PICkit 2 as an AVR programmer
We have a Microchip PICkit 2 on the electronics bench. It lives in the cardboard tray at the woodstore end of the shelves, with the logic analyser. There should be two 12 cm programming cables with it - grey ribbon cable with black ends - 6 pin SIL M-F for Microchip PIC ICSP, and 6 pin SIL M to 3x2 F for Atmel AVR ISP, and also an 18 cm 6 pin SIL M to individual colour coded pins breadboard programming cable.
These are User:IanM's installation notes.
AVRDUDE support
Recent versions of AVRDUDE support Microchip PICkit 2 as an AVR ISP programmer. Use command line option: -p pickit2
Installation (Windows)
I assume you already have AVRDUDE, and possibly a GUI for it installed.
Run Zadig (from https://zadig.akeo.ie/ ) and do 'Options=>'List all devices'. Select the PICkit 2 and install the WinUSB (libusb) driver. If problems occur later return to this step and try the libusbK driver.
Alternatively (my preference) use libusb-win32 and install a filter driver for the PICkit 2 so both AVRDUDE and the PICkit software can use it.
Reverting to PICs
N.B. If not using a filter driver, to revert the PICkit 2 to the original USB HID driver for use with MPLAB or the PICkit 2 GUI or command line PIC programming utility you need to 'De-Zadig' the PICkit 2 by uninstalling it from Device Manager, selecting the option to delete all drivers, then scan for hardware changes to let windows reinstall it.
Arduino IDE Support
To add PICkit 2 as a programmer in the Arduino v1.8x IDE, append the following lines to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\programmers.txt" after making a backup copy:
# User added PICkit 2 pickit2.name=PICkit 2 pickit2.communication=usb pickit2.protocol=pickit2 pickit2.program.protocol=pickit2 pickit2.program.tool=avrdude pickit2.program.extra_params=-v -V
Test the installation by selecting PICkit 2 as the programmer in the Arduino IDE and, with an AVR based board selected but no target connected, do 'Burn bootloader'. You should get a long and detailed report ending:
avrdude: MicroChip's PICkit2 Programmer firmware version 2.32.0
avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-2
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.
Error while burning bootloader.
Connections to an AVR MCU
The PICkit 2 pin 1 is identified by a white arrow on the upper case.
Pin assignments are:
PK2| AVR |2x3 ISP|2x5 ISP|Breadboard| ATmega328P pin| Signal |header |header |ICSP cable| DIP pin ===|===========|=======|=======|==========|========== 1 - RST - 5 - 5 - Yellow - 1 + 10K pullup 2 - Vcc Targ. - 2 - 2 - Red - 7,20 } + 100nF 3 - Gnd - 6 - 10 - Black - 8,22 } decoupling 4 - MISO - 1 - 9 - Blue - 18 (PB4/D12) 5 - SCLK - 3 - 7 - White - 19 (PB5/D13) 6 - MOSI - 4 - 1 - Green - 17 (PB3/D11) ┌─┐ >│1│ ┌───┐ │2│ ┌───┐ │1 2│ │3│ │1 2│ │3 4│ │4│ 3 4│ 5 6│ │5│ │5 6│ │7 8│ │6│ └───┘ │9 o│10 └─┘ └───┘
Also see https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/installing-an-arduino-bootloader/all