2005-01-12 by Dave VanHorn
> >Looks disgusting! > >I just tried setting my iron to 500F and I'm sure it woud create lots of bad >joints as standard solder only melts at 460F. > >I usually use around 650F for soldering - it gives very fast reliable joints. > > >-- >Ralph Hilton >http://www.ralphhilton.org >
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2005-01-12 by Ralph Hilton
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:40:32 +1300 you wrote: > >Has anybody heard of these soldering irons? >Hope it not iron you throw out after 100 solder joints (if you get the flow) > > > >An interesting soldering iron - The Cold Heat Soldering Tool is a cordless >tool that heats quickly an
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2005-01-12 by Dave VanHorn
At 02:40 PM 1/12/2005, Eric wrote: >Has anybody heard of these soldering irons? >Hope it not iron you throw out after 100 solder joints (if you get the flow) Cute, but I wouldn't use it for electronics. It works by pumping large currents through the things that it's heating.
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2005-01-12 by Eric
Has anybody heard of these soldering irons? Hope it not iron you throw out after 100 solder joints (if you get the flow) An interesting soldering iron - The Cold Heat Soldering Tool is a cordless tool that heats quickly and cools down nearly as fast. It creates the heat right in
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2005-01-12 by Mike Harrison
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:48:39 -0000, you wrote: > >I have to maintain some equipment which uses the AT90S4414 (40 pin DIP) >which has been obsolete for a few years. The usual UK suppliers (Farnell, >CPC, RS) no longer have them (nor the AT90S8515 which might be an >alternative). >
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2005-01-12 by George Smith
Thanks for the suggestions about the atmega8515 - unfortunately it has to be a straight plug-in replacement. I am not allowed to touch the code (even assuming the correct source version could be located...). As an aside, there are actually two completely different pieces of hardw
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2005-01-12 by Randy & Zonya Ledyard
Murat I would be interested in that code for the quadrature encoders decoding - assembly is fine By the way, I was on your website, and tried to download the YahooGroup Agent program, but it won't download - can you check that? Randy -----Original Message----- From: MuRaT KaRaDeN
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2005-01-12 by Leon Heller
----- Original Message ----- From: George Smith To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 1:48 PM Subject: [AVR-Chat] AT90S4414 old stock in UK? I have to maintain some equipment which uses the AT90S4414 (40 pin DIP) which has been obsolete for a few years. T
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2005-01-12 by George Smith
I have to maintain some equipment which uses the AT90S4414 (40 pin DIP) which has been obsolete for a few years. The usual UK suppliers (Farnell, CPC, RS) no longer have them (nor the AT90S8515 which might be an alternative). Is anyone aware of any (new) old stock lying in the UK
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2005-01-12 by Dingo
G'Day. Yes, some ppl call me Nigel :) And, are you sure it was me who had a problem with the ICE200? Are you refering to a post here or over at AVRFreaks? I'm trying to remember but I can't think of anything I would have posted about an ICE200. I don't even own one. Still racking
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2005-01-12 by John Samperi
G'day Mr Dingo_aus ( I just know you must have a name :-) ) If I remember correctly you had some problems with the ICE200, I was wondering how it is going. I think I may have stumbled on some sort of a cure for it, don't know what I did, but both Studio 4.09 and 3.56 have been wo
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2005-01-12 by Dingo
I can never work out Memec's site. I figure they want you to give them a call so you feel like you have to order up bigtime :) Saying you want 2 units is so much easier to a computer screen than a human ;) Also, I've found National Semiconductor to be great for samples (to Austra
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2005-01-11 by saaibaa
Hi just to mention that philips has a usb controller isp1181 which is pretty good. (at least i like it) cheers, Leif --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Phillip Vogel" wrote: > Linx modules have the FTDI chip and all the glue in a 16 pin package. > Hook up VCC, GND, TX, RX and 4 wi
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2005-01-11 by Kathy Quinlan
Leon Heller wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: beaver > To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:23 PM > Subject: [AVR-Chat] Free electronic samples? > > > 11 stycznia 2005, 16:16 > > Do you know some producents that realy ship parts samples (yo
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2005-01-11 by Leon Heller
----- Original Message ----- From: beaver To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:23 PM Subject: [AVR-Chat] Free electronic samples? 11 stycznia 2005, 16:16 Do you know some producents that realy ship parts samples (you've ordered something for example)? I'
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2005-01-11 by Jeffrey Engel
www.olimex.com is based in Europe (I forget which country). I have no idea whether they sample or not. HTH, Jeff Engel --- beaver wrote: > > 11 stycznia 2005, 16:16 > > Do you know some producents that realy ship parts > samples (you've > ordered something for example)? I'm inter
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2005-01-11 by beaver
11 stycznia 2005, 16:16 Do you know some producents that realy ship parts samples (you've ordered something for example)? I'm interested in companies that ship also to EU (Poland) and not only to USA or Canada. This will help me to build some low-cost student projects, of course
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2005-01-10 by MuRaT KaRaDeNiZ
I use At90s8535 in a motor controller board I designed. Look at: http://www.onlinefavbar.com/mukas/index.htm?electronics.htm I use external interrupts to increment/decrement the software counters. If you are interested I can give you the quadrature encoder decoding code in assemb
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2005-01-10 by Jeffrey Engel
Thanks for helping with a newbie error, everyone! Setting the fuses correctly worked. I was misinterpreting whether the checked boxes in PonyProg meant the fuses were set or cleared. Jeff Engel --- beaver wrote: > 10 stycznia 2005, 11:21 > > 10 stycznia 2005, 07:59, Jeffrey napis
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2005-01-10 by beaver
10 stycznia 2005, 11:21 10 stycznia 2005, 07:59, Jeffrey napisał(a): > I'm having some problems with my Mega8's serial port > or crystal. > It's programmed to use 9600 baud, but seems to > transmit at 1200 baud. Either I'm not doing something > correctly (likely) or the Mega8 is
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2005-01-10 by gouy yann
Hi again, oops, it miss it again: it is exactly the opposite. CKSEL[1:3] programmed (= 0) => internal oscillar 1 MHz CKSEL[1:3] unprogrammed (= 1) => external crystal 8 MHz sorry, this inverse logic is quite error prone. beware your programmer, if it's a GUI, the box check could
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2005-01-10 by Kathy Quinlan
Jeffrey Engel wrote: > I'm having some problems with my Mega8's serial port > or crystal. > > It's programmed to use 9600 baud, but seems to > transmit at 1200 baud. Either I'm not doing something > correctly (likely) or the Mega8 is running at 1/8 > speed. > > It's an 8Mhz cryst
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2005-01-10 by gouy yann
--- Jeffrey Engel a écrit : > > I'm having some problems with my Mega8's serial port > or crystal. > > It's programmed to use 9600 baud, but seems to > transmit at 1200 baud. Either I'm not doing > something > correctly (likely) or the Mega8 is running at 1/8 > speed. > > It's an
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2005-01-10 by Jeffrey Engel
I'm having some problems with my Mega8's serial port or crystal. It's programmed to use 9600 baud, but seems to transmit at 1200 baud. Either I'm not doing something correctly (likely) or the Mega8 is running at 1/8 speed. It's an 8Mhz crystal and the fuses that are set are: CKSE
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2005-01-10 by brewski922
When I started out with Olimex AVR prototype boards I too purchased the AVR-PG1B serfial port dongle. Tried to get Pony-Prog to work with it. Never actually got it to work before I fried it. Then I built my own parallel port dongle. For me this has the benefit of freeing up my on
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2005-01-09 by Larry Barello
All I/O pins. -----Original Message----- From: Mike Murphree > > The Schmitt trigger inputs on all AVR's conditions the raw opto output. Somehow, I've missed this feature in the datasheets. How many AVR devices incorporate Schmitt triggers on the inputs? Is this all pins or just
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2005-01-09 by Mike Murphree
On Jan 9, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Larry Barello wrote: > > I do this often. Check out www.barello.net/Papers (motion control), > www.barello.net/ARC (look at sample code & projects), and > www.barello.net/Robots. > > The Schmitt trigger inputs on all AVR's conditions the raw opto outp
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2005-01-09 by Larry Barello
I do this often. Check out www.barello.net/Papers (motion control), www.barello.net/ARC (look at sample code & projects), and www.barello.net/Robots. The Schmitt trigger inputs on all AVR's conditions the raw opto output. Depending upon speed of the count you can either poll or u
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2005-01-09 by Ridho Alpha
hello i use AVR for motor control, I use ATMEGA16. i ask for encoder which is made just from optocoupler "U" model.the output is pulses. What do you think how i can read the counter???counting process.the best solution?? Using External Interrupt?? Using Counter??? please give a c
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2005-01-09 by Dingo
There is a command line switch that displays all the supported programmers but I can't find it, maybe ask in the AVR-dude mailing list. Also look in the avrdude.conf file this see if it is there or a similar device. Also check the Olimex docs to see if it is compatible with somet
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2005-01-08 by Joel Kolstad
Hi Jose, --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Jose Fuentes wrote: > AT43USB355E price is u$4.50. I am wondering if it > would be an appropiate device to develop a mixing > console with +32 knobs (potentiometers). The device > has to measure the knobs position (thruough the ADC) > and
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2005-01-08 by ethan@bufbotics.org
Ok, following Dingo's advice, I'm trying to use AVR-dude to program an ATmega16 using an Olimex AVR-PG1B programmer. NOTE: this programmer plugs into my serial port. I just downloaded avrdude 4.3 (I couldn't find a winXP copy of 4.4) and don't know which programmer hardware to us
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2005-01-08 by ethan@bufbotics.org
Dingo said: > Double check your hardware by using Avr-dude to attempt the download. Thanks for the idea, I'll try that out. I have successfully used Avr-dude in the past to program the microcontrollers via my STK500 (those were all chips on the STk itself, tonight I'll try to use
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2005-01-08 by Dingo
Double check your hardware by using Avr-dude to attempt the download. ----- Original Message ----- From: ethan@bufbotics.org To: avr-chat@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 12:27 PM Subject: [AVR-Chat] can't ride the pony(prog) Hello, I am tyring to get PonyProg2000
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2005-01-08 by ethan@bufbotics.org
Hello, I am tyring to get PonyProg2000 working to do ISP on an ATmega16 using an Olimex AVR-PG1B serial dongle. Any pony command I issue results in "Device missing or unknown device (-24)". I've tried erase, read, write, you name it. I have selected the proper ATmega16 target in
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2005-01-07 by Jose Fuentes
AT43USB355E price is u$4.50. I am wondering if it would be an appropiate device to develop a mixing console with +32 knobs (potentiometers). The device has to measure the knobs position (thruough the ADC) and send the values over USB. Is AT43USB355E fast enough to this applicatio
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2005-01-07 by Mike Perks
I have developed a homebrew development board. The main motivation was for the BX-35 (BasicX) but it also supports other AVR 40-pin chips. An overview can be found here http://home.austin.rr.com/perks/basicx/DevelopmentBoard.htm. Please let me know (publically or via private mess
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2005-01-07 by basicx_austin
The correct URL without the period is http://home.austin.rr.com/perks/basicx/DevelopmentBoard.htm --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, Mike Perks wrote: > I have developed a homebrew development board. The main motivation was > for the BX-35 (BasicX) but it also supports other AVR 40
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2005-01-07 by Q boll
http://www.infrarotport.de/tfd_4.pdf >From: "Lasse Madsen" >Reply-To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com >To: >Subject: [AVR-Chat] IRDA ? >Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:03:53 +0100 > >Hi All, > >I am about to use some IRDA transceivers for a project but I don't exactly >know how it works. > >Wh
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2005-01-07 by alan_probandt
For transmitting data from an AVR, the data needs to amplified. The current coming out a single port pin is not enough to drive an infraRed LED. To boost the signal, I've had success with a ULN2003a chip. Do a Google search for a chip's datasheet in PDF for more info. The infra r
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2005-01-07 by Lasse Madsen
Hi All, I am about to use some IRDA transceivers for a project but I don’t exactly know how it works. What I would like to do is connect the IRDA transceiver directly to the UART of my AVR. I want to transfer some bytes with approx 1200 baud 8 bit data 1 bit stop from one AVR to
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2005-01-06 by alan_probandt
The AVR brochure for the new debugWIRE and JTAG interface module mentions that debugWIRE will be implemented on the Tiny25 and Tiny45 chips, along with the current Mega48, Mega68, and Tiny2313 and Tiny13. Does anyone have any idea of what will be on these projected Tiny25 and Tin
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2005-01-06 by Ricardo Callejo
where did you buy this ic? wich prize? Thanks. Ricardo Callejo Argentina. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shibu Krishnan To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 7:35 AM Subject: [SPAM]: [AVR-Chat] Interfacing AD7750 with AVR hi all I'm currently looking a
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2005-01-06 by Jose Fuentes
Which voltage reference are you using? I used ATmega16 and had a similar problem because it was set to use internal 2.56V voltage reference. Regards, Jose --- Leon Heller escribió: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nailson Roveta > To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thur
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2005-01-06 by Jose Fuentes
I found two interesting documents in Atmel's web site: AVR USB Firmware Library http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc3518.pdf AT43USB355 USB DEVELOPMENT KIT http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc3335.pdf Regards, Jose --- Mike Murphree escribió: > >
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2005-01-06 by Leon Heller
----- Original Message ----- From: Jose Fuentes To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] ADC in AVR Which voltage reference are you using? I used ATmega16 and had a similar problem because it was set to use internal 2.56V volta
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2005-01-06 by Leon Heller
----- Original Message ----- From: Nailson Roveta To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:53 PM Subject: [AVR-Chat] ADC in AVR Dear, I need to use a sensor of temperature in the avr so that he makes a decision in agreement with the value (using the entranc
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2005-01-06 by Nailson Roveta
Dear, I need to use a sensor of temperature in the avr so that he makes a decision in agreement with the value (using the entrance A/D). Use BASCOM, does anybody have some circuit (clue) with that resource? I am using an attiny15. In the moment use an AT90S4433 connected to a PC
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2005-01-06 by Svenn Dahlstrøm
Thanx a lot Jim, exactly what I was looking for :-) Svenn > > Allegro makes a number of hall based current sensors. They > provide isolation you would need in this application. You > should be able to read the output of a sensor with an ADC > and use the micro to run some of the
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2005-01-06 by wilmar cabrera
Thanks for your help. Larry Barello: I am very thankful, I will work with the info of the link that you gave me. bye. Jose Fuentes: Gracias por tu info. Sos muy amable. En cuanto al software, estoy usando el Winavr mas reciente y uso el pony-stk200 para bajar el programa al micro
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