Dobrica Pavlinušić's random unstructured stuff
PICkit: Revision 3
^ PICKit 2

^^ pk2cmd

.pre
pi@rpi2 ~ $ git clone https://github.com/psmay/pk2cmd
pi@rpi2 ~ $ cd pk2cmd/pk2cmd
pi@rpi2 ~/pk2cmd/pk2cmd $ make linux

pi@rpi2 ~/pk2cmd/pk2cmd $ ./pk2cmd -P
Auto-Detect: Found part PIC16F684.

# power on target from pickit 2
pi@rpi2 ~/pk2cmd/pk2cmd $ ./pk2cmd -PPIC16F684 -T
.pre

^^ serial

https://github.com/majenkotech/pk2serial