Small changes, great problems

[DrBomb]

I changed the pins for the programmer and used a BJT transistor instead of a MOSFET and didn't use any diodes. The serial connection with the PIC doesn't work, it just shows all zeroes when i use an 'r' command. Could it be any of the changes I did to the sketch?

[hrickards]

Many apologies for the very late response; I missed the issue somehow. Did you get the programmer working at all, and if not are you still interested? If so, I can see if I can fix the issue sometime next week.