AVR-Chat

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>Until you accidently "disable" the ISP mode which renders your chip
>next to useless unless you have a parallel programmer to fix it. For
>some reason people don't like to talk much about this major trap for
>young players.

I wouldn't say that so much as it just dosen't happen that often.

I also have the STK-500 and AVRISPs, both are useful.

Try a PIC sometime, IIRC if you lock the code, you can no longer reprogram 
the part at all.
On the AVR, you just erase the part and carry on.


You do have to make sure that the programmer isn't running too fast for the 
target system, especially when working with <1 MHz clocks.