[chbot] Atmel Programmers

[Mark Beckett]

Jasper
like you I avoided C things for many years, until someone put me onto 
Arduino.
Its C++ and apart from forgetting the ; or the {} I have been pleasantly 
surprised.
The chips have a bootloader and its a complete IDE which runs in Linux, 
Mac and windows.

It's open source and there are many variations of boards at reasonable 
prices.
There is plenty of support on the forum.

If the standard flavour aren't fast enough theres a Chipkit UNO runing 
32bit at 80Mhz, which Element14 (ex farnell) have at NZ$39.
http://nz.element14.com/digilent/chipkit-uno32/chipkit-uno32-development-board/dp/189321101


Mark

Jasper Mackenzie wrote:
> Good day,
>   At the last meeting I was talking to a few of you about programmers as I  
> need to move away from the wonderful butterfly to more wonderful things  
> like attiny's...
>
> The person who knew I would forget their name, had built a ladyada  
> programmer which he had modified for single sided board, could you post a  
> pdf of the board please, as I dont use eagle. I am using FreePCB (win)
>
> Synco said he was using a usbprog which does seem like a very complete  
> programmer. My questions with this programmer are:
>   a) can it do 1-wire debug - I couldn't find anything on the the usbprog  
> website to suggest so. If not, is there a DIY programmer that does?
>   b) How in the heck as a total C n00b do I use the jtag etc. meaningfully?
>   c) Did this come as a kit, is there a single sided version of the  
> board... i.e what route to fabrication did you take.
>
> Synco, you also mentioned that instead of a dedicated debugger it is  
> easier to pulse a pin or use a uart, I guess much the same as I was doing  
> with the Butterfly LCD.
>
> Anyway, any other thoughts? especially as to how to use and how useful  
> debugging is on these chips. I am using gcc-avr in a GNU/Linux environment.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jasper
>
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