The programmer I use is built from a kit I bought at Tuxgraphics. There are several reasons I bought this kit. It is open source, works with avrdude. It connects to USB. It is a lot faster then my old programmer (Programs an ATMEGA8 in about 5 seconds). It is cheap. I bought the kit […]
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Have you ever seen a business card with a computer chip embedded on it? This one does. It has an ATtiny85 microcontroller chip that stores all your personal details. You plug it into an USB port of your computer, and find the details about the person opened into a text editor. The firmware uses V-USB
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If you cannot afford to buy a USB programmer for AVR, don’t worry, you can make one by yourself. This programmer uses a Atmega8 microcontroller with a few external passive components. The good thing is you don’t need any USB controller because it is implemented in the firmware inside Atmega8. Yes, you are right, you
Open Source USB AVR Programmer for Students and Hobbyists using Atmega8 microcontroller Read More »
“V-USB is a software-only implementation of a low-speed USB device for Atmel’s AVR® microcontrollers, making it possible to build USB hardware with almost any AVR® microcontroller, not requiring any additional chip.” For further details on V-USB and licensing, visit http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html This is a data logger project that reads an analog signal, converts into digital number,
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When I was first working with AVR microcontrollers, I relied a lot on tutorials I found on the web, but nearly all of them raised the question of how to attach a programmer to the microcontroller when you aren’t using a development board. Most of the time, I would see people shoving pieces of wire into the
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So, you want to program a bootloaded AVR. Or possibly, you have an Arduino Lilypad and no way to program it. There are a few solutions available to you: You could buy a USB to FTDI adapter (available at Adafruit, Sparkfun, etc), you could buy a simple FTDI cable, or you could build something. I
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If you are just getting into microcontrollers there’s alot to know as you have likely found out. There’s alot of good online tutorials for the Atmel AVR’s and chances are you have see a few of those by now. I recently got into microcontrollers and didn’t know jack about it. I wanted to have some
How to control a 16×2 LCD using an AVR ATtiny2313 Read More »
English version available at the bottom Se enseñara paso a paso como instalar los controladores (drivers) necesarios para el correcto funcionamiento del programador USBasp para microcontroladores AVR. Primero, mencionaremos algunas consideraciones para evitar fallos por usos indebidos del programador. También se mencionará el protocolo y pines que debe tener en cuenta para poder programar su
Instalacion del controlador USBasp (USBasp drivers setup) – Dark Side Electronics Read More »
Got some scavenged stepper motors from printers/disk drives/etc lying around? Some probing with an ohmeter, followed by some simple driver code on your microprocessor and you’ll be stepping in style. Step 1 Get to Know Steppers Basically, you’re going to need to figure out where all the little wires go. First step is to figure
Drive a Stepper Motor with an AVR Microprocessor using ATTiny2313 microcontroller Read More »
RFID is the craze, found everywhere – from inventory systems to badge ID systems. If you’ve ever been to a department store and walked through those metal-detector-looking things at the entrace/exit points, then you’ve seen RFID. There are several places to find good information on setting up RFID, and this instructable focuses on installing the
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