Hello World on the Arduino
Love it or hate it, every programmer typically wets their feet by writing a “hello world” program in their new programming environment. Since unlike with the type of code I’m used to writing the...
View ArticleBurning the Arduino Bootloader with the AVR Dragon
The AVR Dragon is a little more of an expensive route to go if you’re looking to burn Arduino Bootloaders. They can ring in around $50 per unit, though they do come in a beautiful red box with a dragon...
View ArticleBurning the Arduino Bootloader with an AVR STK500 Development Board
I recently discovered that we had an old AVR STK500 development board lying around at work and when I had some free time I decided to play with it and see if I could use it to burn the Arduino...
View ArticleArduino and the USBTinyISP
I’ve been monkeying around with different ways of uploading the sketches and bootloaders to ATmega chips and one of those ways is with the USBTinyISP which I picked up for about $10 on eBay. Even...
View Article