Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: newbie looking for advice
2008-02-27 by np np
In my experience its best to buy programmers made by the same manufacturer as the chips I am using. Sorry to mention PIC's but I have heard of lots of problems with none Microchip programmers. I can only guess the same is true for AVR.
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From: Tom <tjkeller1@windstream.net>
To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, 27 February, 2008 9:23:55 PM
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: newbie looking for advice
John Samperi wrote:
>
> At 06:52 PM 27/02/2008, you wrote:
> > You can use a parallel
> >port (assuming your PC has one), and a 4 wire cable, wired to a piece of
> >perfboard, or to pins that can
> >\be pligged into your solderless breadboard, for programming. Dead
> simple.
>
> ....which is usually followed by Dead Chip....
>
> Regards
>
> John Samperi
>
With all due respect, John, Horsepuckey! My first AVR project was
an AT90S8515 based project involving three separate controllers for
interactive video kiosks (for the KoolAid Museum) and I must have
programmed those 8515s a hundred times befoe I got the programs working
properly. All done with nothing more thana length of ribbon cabl;e
with 4 lines, and a DB25 connector on one endm and db-9 connector ont he
other end, plugging in to my controllers. Never lost am 8515. Thery
are still in place, still running great 5 years later.
While expensive programmer hardware can be nice, and offers some
nice, useful features, the truth is that so long as one is reasonably
careful, one can get bv dirt cheap with AVRs, without problems.
avrFreak
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