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  1. Re:Spark Fun by Sebastopol · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Best EEPROM Programmer For a Hobbyists?

    SparkFun doesn't carry universal programmers, just ones specific to the particular ucontroller.

    MicroController Pros are where the good stuff is at:

    http://microcontrollershop.com/default.php?cPath=92&osCsid=c0eab1d9c7b6bbc4a4ec8f048d529bc2

  2. Re:Arduino by Animats · · Score: 1 · on Modern Day Equivalent of Byte/Compute! Magazine?

    Personally I prefer working with ATmega's directly rather than with Arduino, but ... if you want to futz around and LEARN, Arduino is a good place for it.

    Yes. ATMega boards with small LCD displays are available, and Atmel's free AVR Studio is a reasonable IDE, with C and C++. If you already know how to program and don't want to join the Arduno cult, it's a reasonable way to get things done. There's a wide range of ATMega parts with different combinations of RAM, Flash, and I/O devices. AVR Studio supports all of them; the Arduno support is more limited.

  3. Re:The "Arduno" cult by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Open Source Hardware Projects, 2009

    The Arduno cult is about branding, not technology. The CPU is an ATMega 128, a good little microcontroller. Boards for that CPU have been available for years. I was using this one years before the cult. It's Atmel that made this all possible, by building a microcontroller that requires very few external components to program and debug.

    The Arduno people have their own language and terminology, talking about "shields" (daughterboards) and such. Too cult-like.

    The Arduino used to use the Atmega 168 not the 128. I believe they have moved on to the Atmega 328.

  4. The "Arduno" cult by Animats · · Score: 1 · on Open Source Hardware Projects, 2009

    The Arduno cult is about branding, not technology. The CPU is an ATMega 128, a good little microcontroller. Boards for that CPU have been available for years. I was using this one years before the cult. It's Atmel that made this all possible, by building a microcontroller that requires very few external components to program and debug.

    The Arduno people have their own language and terminology, talking about "shields" (daughterboards) and such. Too cult-like.

  5. Re:Check out "Wiring" by Animats · · Score: 1 · on What Micro-Controller Would You Use to Teach With?

    The "Wiring" board is kind of hard to get, but take a look at this $54 board. AtMega128, 2-line LCD, four buttons, relay, LED, buzzer, and connectors for most of the micro controller's interfaces. If that can be made to work with Wiring, you'd have a nice little self-contained board that students can learn on.

  6. True, but have you checked out the competition? by epseps · · Score: 3, Interesting · on New $149 NetBSD Single Board Computer Port

    Here are some ARM based boards to compare:

    Microcontrollershop.com

    Here is a similar Atmel board but this is only 8 bit and $153. Atmel Ethernut Board

    8MB or 16MB flash with 32MB ram on a 32 bit processor is a good deal in the world of small low powr computers. (but still expensive compared to x86 desktop)

  7. True, but have you checked out the competition? by epseps · · Score: 3, Interesting · on New $149 NetBSD Single Board Computer Port

    Here are some ARM based boards to compare:

    Microcontrollershop.com

    Here is a similar Atmel board but this is only 8 bit and $153. Atmel Ethernut Board

    8MB or 16MB flash with 32MB ram on a 32 bit processor is a good deal in the world of small low powr computers. (but still expensive compared to x86 desktop)