AVR-Chat

Zack Widup wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, kushmakar sharma wrote:
> > kushie4u wrote:
> > > thanx dude...
> > > but i m still a beginner in AVR.. got really freaked out coz cant 
> get anythin useful... still no idea wat a
> > > security dongle is n how to construct it using AT MEGA16 or TINY26 
> assembly..
> >     hi pete...
> >   i know u r right but i m not sitting idle either. i m  going thru 
> datasheets of MEGA16 

 >> TINY26... i myself don't want to b spoonfed.. i m jus lookin for a 
direction to start.. coz as u said i m a student n very new
 >> to AVR.. i m lookin for a headstart in the world of AVR... any books 
to refer..any site to visit...some whitepaper or
 >>anything... it wil b of immense help..
 >I always recommend simple projects to start out and build on them. 
When I started using AVR's I'd already had quite a bit of >experience 
with PIC's, so AVR's weren't that difficult to learn, but I still had 
some learning to do.  The STK-500 is a great
 > tool for this.  Once you've played around with the code in the chip 
they supply that turns on LED's, try writing a program to >do it via the 
serial port.
 > For more data on different projects you can try, look at the Atmel 
website; there's a lot of application notes, etc. there.  The
 > other website to look at is AVRFreaks.

  An additional thought:  don't start out on a proiject where you have 
NO expertise at all.  Not being familiar with a specific
processor family is not a significant imnpediment to completing a 
project.  That, in facvt, is the best way to LEARN a new processor.  But 
taking on a project where you have *NO* background and no informatin at 
all, without doing the fundamental research ahead of time, is just plain 
stupid.

tom