People build programmers because they are very cheap and easy to build. If the price and complexity of a home built programmer were to be more than abut $30 not many people would go for it because Digikey will sell you an STK500 or avrdragon for $50. I actually got both of these in a bundle for $49. Atmel is smart to sell these as loss leaders
--- Graham Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clemens Koller wrote: > > > Well, it seems that everyone builds his own programmer and starts > to > > struggle again with wiring, configuration of programming software > etc. pp. > > This isn't really true. There are a large number of programmers out > there > with various capabilities and fair prices. Take a look on AVRfreaks. > > People only build their own if they value the learning experience or > have > lots of time and no money. On the other hand, Atmel have kept the > designs > of newer debug interfaces closed (the JTAG ICE MkII and Dragon) and > it might > be interesting to see what can be done *legally* in this area. > > Graham. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > AVR-chat mailing list > AVR-chat@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat > Chris Albertson Home: 310-376-1029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 310-336-5189 [EMAIL PROTECTED] KG6OMK/AG ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469 _______________________________________________ AVR-chat mailing list AVR-chat@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat
