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Software => Software => Topic started by: huevon on April 21, 2010, 02:55:15 PM

Title: what avr programer and where to buy
Post by: huevon on April 21, 2010, 02:55:15 PM

Hi all
what is the best AVR Programmer? A good balance between functionality and price. I am looking to buy one but did not find any in UK or e-bay.
I found those from US I think
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9231 (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9231)
http://www.robotsimple.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=50 (http://www.robotsimple.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=50)

Please leave your comments about them, or if you show me UK place where to buy and save me waiting would be even better

Thank you in advance

Title: Re: what avr programer and where to buy
Post by: Razor Concepts on April 21, 2010, 03:12:32 PM

Get the AVR ISP MKII, it is the official programmer from Atmel and will always be working well  ;D

Title: Re: what avr programer and where to buy
Post by: Choco_liger on April 22, 2010, 04:19:22 AM

I currently have the AVR ISP MKII Programmer and it is pretty awesome. More expensive though.  :)

Title: Re: what avr programer and where to buy
Post by: tim_wang on April 22, 2010, 05:14:35 PM

I think http://www.kanda.com/ (http://www.kanda.com/) is located in the UK.

Title: Re: what avr programer and where to buy
Post by: madsci1016 on April 22, 2010, 05:23:44 PM

I swear by this guy

http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1300 (http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1300)

$20 and it has some side features like an additional Uart and o-scope function.

I've actually just started hard mounting them to my robot (since they are cheap) as a single USB cable for both programming and debugging printf from my MCU.

Title: Re: what avr programer and where to buy
Post by: huevon on April 23, 2010, 04:12:00 AM

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I swear by this guy

http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1300 (http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/1300)

$20 and it has some side features like an additional Uart and o-scope function.

I'm so glad to hear that as the AVR MKII costs twice that + delivery + UK VAT + Parcel Force handling charges (such a pain)
definately going for polulu programer :)