AVR-Chat

Hi Gang...!!

I was searching for a new MCU and started looking at the AVR line of 
MCU chips. I had seen the butterfly card for $20 and having read the 
chat from here decided to get the "carrier" board kit from echos for 
$20 to go with that. I also got the Bascom program for $85 from 
Rhombus. Now for the nubie question.... Will the serial port from 
the carrier board be reconised by the Bascom program, or will I need 
an ISP or JTAG device also..?

I am tring to put together a simple cheep platform the eval the "new 
toolchain" before I consider using it to produce the new project I 
need. 

I am looking to construct an electronic lock that works as a "stand 
alone" device. It needs a RTC, a large SPI based EEprom or Flash 
based addon. (2megx8) for database record and transaction log 
storage. I want to be able to use an ATmega128 as the baseband MCU 
and write the code usuing the Bascom compiler. BUT ... The kicker is 
how to get the DATA exchanged between the user of the device ad a PC 
or laptop...???   DING...  Use a CF memory card, (hey, there cheep) 
and use the AVR DOS fileing system to write the transaction logs to 
the CFcard.  Then I could write the whole thing using Basic..!!!

Yea..!!  What a deal...   but has anyone auctually doe this yet...


Thanks for reading all the babble..!!!

     jea

http://www.ecrostech.com./