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Open Flash/EEPROM/EPROM Writers?

Posted by Cliff on from the hardware-for-programming-hardware dept.

Karim Yaghmour asks: "Flash/EEPROM programmers tend to be expensive (especially if you want support for many devices). I am trying to find a Flash/EEPROM programmer for which the schematics and software are available in Open Source form on the web. The projects I have found are rather basic and do not provide support for a wide range of memory devices. Does anyone have any recommendations? Is anyone working on such an Open Source project? Something like the Bitscope project (an 'Open Source' Oscilloscope) mentioned earlier on Slashdot, but for device programmers. If not, is anyone interested in starting such a project?"

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  1. Have you bothered to actually look? by steve.m · · Score: 1, Redundant

    instead of just posting it on 'ask slashdot'?

    Years ago, when electronics was the geek hobby and people designed and built their own computers around Z80 or 6502 processors, electronics magazines published project plans to construct eeprom blowers amongst all the other stuff you'd need to build your own system.

    Forget this trendy 'open source' phrase, people have been designing and sharing their circuit diagrams long before this term was coined.

    I bet you haven't tried to search for 'eeprom programmer project' on google have you?