AVR-Chat

Ted,

I am also new.  I was in the same boat as you.

I would recommend going to the Smiley site:

http://smileymicros.com/

If you drop ~$80 US dollars you get

- Butterfly Board from atmel
- Project Kit
- Book that guides you step by step though
   - development environment setup
   - a number of fun projects that have all required 
     parts in the kit.


Just starting out in something, it is nice to have
step-by-step recipies to follow (and the hardware
to execute them:-).  You get it all in this package.

Have fun, and welcome.

Mike


--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Ted Smith" <tedsmithau@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm probably the oldest living active programmer in Australia and
> have decided to have a go at AVRmega16's before I die - hopefully
> using Bascom basic.
> I have done a lot with VB6 and assembly with the old 6502's 25 years
> ago but can't find anywhere any concise info on how to structure the
> AVR programs and integrating the various sub-routines, interrupts etc.
> It all seems so disjointed and every article I have found so is
> written by someone who assumes I know what they know. (Like Microsoft
> help screens of the past)
> Can anyone point me to a good step by step starting guide on how to
> compose a simple program to say accept a few switch inputs and output
> to a few leds while displaying information from the EEprom on an LCD
> depending on what switch is pressed?
> With the old 6502 I would have used interrupt routines for the
> switches and had a loop polling the inputs and simply written to
> output port addresses with an indexed address looking up data
> depending on the switch number.
> I can't seem to rationalise this to the AVR or is it done another way?
> Thanks Ted Smith
>