AVR-Chat

At 10:38 PM 11/25/2003 +0000, etgfx wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>Does anyone know what the best way to start out in AVR programming 
>is?  I've heard from a local hobbiest programmer that there was a way 
>to do a 6wire parralel port programmer, but I wasn't able to find 
>this from google. 

I used the programmer by BA1FB, a chinese ham, with the 2343.
The whelenchip code in the files area was developed with this.

> Does anyone have a link to this, or other simple 
>programmers?   There doesn't seem to be a whole lot out there for the 
>student budget that I have been able to find.  Also any other advice 
>for begining avr programmers would be very appreciated.

The 2343 is a very simple chip to get started on.
Feed it 5V, pull up the reset pin, and it goes. :)