[chbot] Programming AVRs over USB

[Charles Manning]

Thanks Michael

Handy hint reduces the amount of stuff you need to lug around.

I have a low-cost (30 Euro) ARM jtagger I'll try than with.

On Saturday 14 November 2009 22:22:57 Michael Hope wrote:
> Hi there.  This might be interesting to those who are into AVRs but
> are parallel port impaired.  It turns out that you can use most any
> FTDI based ARM JTAG dongle plus a patch to avrdude to program the
> chips.  Performance is decent at about 1 s for a erase/program/verify
> cycle on a 1 k program to a MEGA48.
>
> It should also work on any FTDI chip with the MPSSE engine which is
> useful if you have one of the FTDI demo boards.
>
> My notes and patches are at:
>  http://wiki.seabright.co.nz/wiki/AvrdudeAndFtdi.html
>
> -- Michael
>
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