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I found it difficult to use, and it needed to be modified to support the AT-Tiny26 chip I wanted to use. This was also poorly documented and Atmel admitted the fact which they said they would fix.
It is exactly what you say, a "development system", and in that respect it's not too bad as it's fairly flexible. However, this flexability makes it a very fiddly to use as a simple programmer.
It all you are after is a simple easy to use programmer (as I was), you'll probably find it quite frustrating.
Not everyone wants to flash LEDs on a development board, and IMHO Atmel made a mistake by pushing the STK500 as their base level programming solution.

Dave :)

>>> erichards@clear.net.nz 04/11/2004 9:38:13 pm >>>

Does anybody know about the Atmel AVR ® STK500 is a starter kit and
development system


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What needed to be modified? I just got the STK500 and plan to use the Tiny26
with it.
Dennis

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From: "David Jones" <david.jones@sercel.com.au>
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Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] STK500 starter kit



I found it difficult to use, and it needed to be modified to support the
AT-Tiny26 chip I wanted to use. This was also poorly documented and Atmel
admitted the fact which they said they would fix.
It is exactly what you say, a "development system", and in that respect it's
not too bad as it's fairly flexible. However, this flexability makes it a
very fiddly to use as a simple programmer.
It all you are after is a simple easy to use programmer (as I was), you'll
probably find it quite frustrating.
Not everyone wants to flash LEDs on a development board, and IMHO Atmel made
a mistake by pushing the STK500 as their base level programming solution.

Dave :)

>>> erichards@clear.net.nz 04/11/2004 9:38:13 pm >>>

Does anybody know about the Atmel AVR ® STK500 is a starter kit and
development system


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>Not everyone wants to flash LEDs on a development board, and IMHO Atmel made
>a mistake by pushing the STK500 as their base level programming solution.

There's always the AVRISP. No good for Tiny-11's or anything else that 
needs parallel programming, but otherwise, just fine.