My single piece of advise when choosing an AVR programmer is to make sure that it is compatible with AVR Studio. A cheap DASA programmer or the USBTiny are great programmers, don't get me wrong.. But you're stuck dealing with them commandline from AVRdude.. I've got better things to do than to sit around calculating fuse values and suchlike. I picked up a chinese AVRISP clone on ebay for $30.. I think you can even buy _REAL_ avrisp's for about $30 now. Don't waste money on a programmer that isn't supported by AVR Studio. http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Atmel/ATAVRISP2/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMv256HIxPBQcA8%252bsNH3cLLR
Also, as always, I recommend this guy's JTAG ICE kit: http://www.nkcelectronics.com/avr-jtag-ice-clone-debugger-programmer-kit.html It's getting a little long in the tooth (It only works on the older JTAG ready AVRMega's... The ATMega32 or ATMega32a for example, not the ATMega644) but if you're willing to live with that design constraint, it can be VERY handy to be able to debug while running on target hardware. Otherwise you're stuck with hansel & gretel debugging (leaving breadcrumbs). Obviously, chips that don't support JTAG (like the ATTiny2313) won't support this ICE. -Adam On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:28 PM, James <[email protected]> wrote: > Check out Bascom AVR from MCS Electronics if you like something > similar to Qbasic. If you want C, grab WinAVR, both are free. > > The ATTINY2313 is a great chip, low cost, easy to get in both DIP and > SMT packages and it has WAAAAAAAAAY more than enough power for any > Nixie clock. > > Any number of different AVR ISP programming circuits are available, I > recommend one compatible with the STK500 protocol so that it works > seamlessly with AVR Studio. > > If you do decide to go with the AVR, there's the AVR Freaks discussion > board with a lot of active users. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
