AVR-Chat

Instead of spending all that time building something that apparently 
doesn't work, why not just buy either and ATAVRISP or an STK500 
development board?  Sometimes we can be penny rich and dollar poor when 
it comes to tools...wasting a lot of time, and time is money, in the 
process.  Even if you have a known working product sent to you over 
night, you're still at about 100 dollars or less.  How long do you have 
to work to bill a hundred bucks?  Not long, I suspect.

If you don't value your time, nobody else will either.

Not trying to climb your sneakers here, just sharing some hard earned 
experience...trying to save a hundred bucks once cost me several 
thousand when the project got canceled.  Each and every tool you buy 
will pay for itself many times over.

You wouldn't go out in the driveway to work on your car without a set of 
wrenches, would you?


REB



Jay Dagenais wrote:

> I am having  the worst time these days with my being able to program any of the AVR devices I am currently working with, and it is driving me nutz! I usually use the AVRISP dongle provided with the STK300 dev board by Kanda. The device is really outdated and has many flaws from what I have gathered just from checking out the forums and my own crappy experiences, so I just finished building one of the updated versions posted on the AVRFreaks site. The design I opted for was the 'even_better_pppd_mod_March4_2006' which includes many resisitors and decoup caps on the signal lines, etc...Anyways, I just tried using it via AVRStudio, no luck still, it just doesn't seem to read anything on the port(LPT). I also have WINAVR and tried via AVRDude, but the software doesn't seem to support the device hooked up(Tiny45)[maybe I have an old version?as I have been told it supports this device???]. Idealy I would prefer to just use AVRISP loader, but the version I have for my Kanda dongle is way too old and doesn't support half of the devices I have, including the tiny hooked up. What can I do here to get going again using my tiny45??? I have to get this device loaded and quick! No cash to buy hardware unfortunatly, so need DIY solutions today. Thanks in advance everyone!
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