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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kong" <kong.ls@gmail.com>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 8:48 AM
Subject: [AVR-Chat] Re: AVR weather station for newbie...


>
> tom,
>
> i'm half way to being converted! by nothing more than the quality of
> your post alone! ;-)
>
> the last time i wrote anything substantial (>10 years ago), i went for
> delphi instead of VB or VC++, does that make me a PIC or an AVR person?
>
> now if, i say if, i decide to go with AVR. which chip and tools would
> you recommend i start with? assuming that i am not going to stop with
> one project...
> is the atmega169 a good chip to start with?
> is the ATAVRBFLY (butterfly?) a worthy toy to learn with?
> should i get the stk500 or are the better alternatives?
>
> could you recommend some good sites/links (beside this one of course)
> for me to read up on?
>
> thanks.
>
> --kong
>
>
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Hello Kong,

I believe that the STK500 is a very good bargain and it even comes with a
chip to get you started. Not sure what they are sending these days but for
$79 ( Digikey, All-American, etc. ) it is a good start and I'm sure if you
wanted you could make a weather station out of it. But it may be better to
use it get your feet wet and build what you really want went you've done
some experimenting.

Some easy google searches will find other AVR prototype boards ... there are
many and many good ones.

Here I use the Imagecraft compiler for my projects and I strongly recommend
it. The 4k version is without any charges and you can get started, just
download the demo version and get go. If you need larger the standard
version is quite inexpensive for such a marvelous C compiler. If you just
need assembly then AVR Studio has all you would need I believe.

The Atmel site has a lot of reading. Search for articles in google there are
many. And it seems I remember a weather station article on the Maxim/Dallas
web site somewhere. Lots of luck and learning.

Jim