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General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: Molni on July 12, 2013, 11:22:52 AM

Title: 50$ Robot
Post by: Molni on July 12, 2013, 11:22:52 AM

Hi!

I am considering about making the $50 robot, but I am a little bit confused. I mean i saw the list of parts and I can't decide if I need the AVR STK Serial Port
Dongle Programmer, the AVR ISP2 Programmer and the Pocket AVR Programmer too, or I just need one of them. I am confused about the batteries too. I should buy all the 3 or just 1?

Title: Re: 50$ Robot
Post by: MrWizard on July 13, 2013, 10:09:04 PM

You just need one programmer. Get one thats atmel studio compatible or avrdude compatible.

Also on the batteries it depends on the robots you want to create. For the 50$ a 4x AA batteryholder will be just fine.
If you want more advanced stuff, you will need bigger capacity batteries.

Title: Re: 50$ Robot
Post by: ankshah13 on July 14, 2013, 04:53:34 AM

@ Molni, Do NOT buy a serial port programmer. They just don't work. I learnt that from my experience. Besides, serial ports are very hard to find these days. I think the best choice for a cheap and good programmer is a 3$~9$ usbasp programmer.. It is cheaper and 10x better than a serial port dongle programmer. The usbasp programmer is avrdude compatible so you will have to install avrdude on your computer.