AVR-Chat

John Samperi wrote:
>
> At 06:52 PM 27/02/2008, you wrote:
> > You can use a parallel
> >port (assuming your PC has one), and a 4 wire cable, wired to a piece of
> >perfboard, or to pins that can
> >\be pligged into your solderless breadboard, for programming. Dead 
> simple.
>
> ....which is usually followed by Dead Chip....
>
> Regards
>
> John Samperi
>
   With all due respect, John, Horsepuckey!    My first AVR project was 
an AT90S8515 based project involving three separate controllers for 
interactive video kiosks (for the KoolAid Museum) and I must have 
programmed those 8515s a hundred times befoe I got the programs working 
properly.   All done with nothing more thana  length of ribbon cabl;e 
with 4 lines, and a DB25 connector on one endm and db-9 connector ont he 
other end, plugging in to my controllers.   Never lost am 8515.   Thery 
are still in place, still running great 5 years later.

   While expensive programmer hardware can be nice, and offers some 
nice, useful features, the truth is that so long as one is reasonably 
careful, one can get bv dirt cheap with AVRs, without problems.



avrFreak