AVR-Chat

At 05:54 PM 11/11/2007, you wrote:
>Is there a way for me to program a chip to communicate, in a serial
>fashion, through the usb port to a program waiting on my machine?

Sure, use a chip with a USART and then use a FTDI or similar USB
adaptor chip instead of a RS232 chip.

>I want to be able to receive data, and possibly even program a flash
>or eeprom.

Put a bootloader into your chip and you can program your chip.

So now back to the topic, what has this all to do with the Dragon?
(I guess you can use it to program the bootloader)

Regards

John Samperi

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