AVR-Chat

In my earlier post in the paragraph replace "and" with "as". Sorry!

After you get familiar programming the AVRs and the STK500 you can 
get some robotic parts and use the STK500 "as" the controller. Later 
on you can go to a dedicated robotic PC board.


> For sources there is also SparkFun
> www.sparkfun.com
> 
> From the way you talk I don't thank you could go wrong with the 
> STK500, about $80.
> 
> For programming software, in Windows, there is:
> AVRStudio free from Atmel
> WinAVR (pronounced winever) free from winavr.sourceforge.net
> CodeVisionAVR from www.hpinfotech.ro, the demo version is free
> 
> After you get familiar programming the AVRs and the STK500 you can 
> get some robotic parts and use the STK500 and the controller. 
Later 
> on you can go to a dedicated robotic PC board.
> 
> Many folks, including myself, use the STK500 as our backbone 
> development system. Oh, we use other things too but that is the 
> mainstay. It can do so much, with its 8 Input Switches and 8 
Output 
> LEDs, a separate RS232 port and it accommodate many different AVR 
> chips.
> 
> Mike