AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "ei5gtb" <paul@...> wrote:

> ... i recently purchased a "my avr"
> board from http://www.myavr.de/ ...

Wait a minute, I've just followed the link to the myAVR.  Did this cost 
you $80?  Can you send it back?  I've succeeded so far in not "touting 
my own stuff", but, just as an example, if you bought an Atmel AVR 
Dragon you'd have ISP and High Voltage programming plus both JTAG and 
debugWIRE debugging.  Mate it with (here I go) a Dragon Rider and you 
can pick and choose among quite a few target devices, including the 
ATmega88 mentioned earlier.  This would only cost you a few bucks more, 
depending on how you count postage.  This is just an example.  Brian 
Dean has good stuff at BDMicro, too, and there's also Smiley Micros, 
all friends of this and other AVR-based discussion groups.  I may be 
misunderstanding, but I don't see how the myAVR is a cost-effective 
starting point for you.  (Boy I hope the people at myAVR aren't in this 
group.)

Graham.