AVR-Chat

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:59:10AM +1000, John Samperi wrote:
> 
> I have a ZIF socket with my Dragon but only used it once,
> I have a myriad of boards with many types of AVRs so it is not
> something I would buy, I guess it would be something that a
> beginner may want to use. I don't even use the STK500, only
> occasionally for the odd HVPP or to help someone with a problem.

Having just recently fired up my Dragon, the most useful thing missing
would have been a selection of 3" jumpers color coded to the tables in
the Dragon manual. And having the big 40 pin header loaded.

A cable with ISP plug on one end for my target, jumper plugs on other
for the Dragon would also be nice.

Next most useful would be a PDF version of the current Dragon manual.

I put machine pin strips in the 28 pin "socket", and will do same for
the 40 pin socket if need arises.

I goofed and didn't put a full ISP header on my target board, only a 3
pin DebugWire connector. After soldering the ATmega48 discovered my
goof. Pre-conditioned a few chips in my socket on the Dragon, cut some
traces on my target board and got ISP control over that chip to flip it
into DebugWire mode.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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