AVR-Chat

Howdy

I am just getting started with the AVR line as well. I'm keeping
myself plenty busy with the Butterfly. I am using WINAVR and studio
for the software. This is alowing me to get familiar with the
environment and build up chunks of useful code.. The buy in was way
low, about twenty something bucks for the butterfly from Digikey and a
simple home made serial cable adaptor, about $2.00 in parts.  I bought
one of Graham's JTAG boards but have not had the need to use it yet,
that will come later....

The Butterfly has it's limits but as a cheap and quick way to get your
hands on hardware and start coding, it's hard to beat. By the time
Graham came out with his Butterfly support board I had already made up
a support setup for my board, but if I where doing it again I would
probably get his board, it would save some time and make for a neater
setup.

Steve