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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: Jdog on December 03, 2008, 02:30:34 PM

Title: Can I use any other free program besides ponyprog?
Post by: Jdog on December 03, 2008, 02:30:34 PM

I was wondering if there was any other free programs out there that I could use to program the atmega 168.

Title: Re: Can I use any other free program besides ponyprog?
Post by: jamort on December 03, 2008, 02:36:00 PM

avr studio....
i think you should have downloaded that before ponyprog

Title: Re: Can I use any other free program besides ponyprog?
Post by: Jdog on December 03, 2008, 02:53:47 PM

I thought you could only wwrite and compile programs with avr studio.

Title: Re: Can I use any other free program besides ponyprog?
Post by: jamort on December 03, 2008, 02:59:27 PM

right you make the program in avr and the put it on the 168 tthrough pony prog but i think really ponprog is going to be your best free software

Title: Re: Can I use any other free program besides ponyprog?
Post by: Jdog on December 03, 2008, 03:09:16 PM

Do I need to use a different program than the supplied one for the 50$ robot because I'm using the 168?

Title: Re: Can I use any other free program besides ponyprog?
Post by: jamort on December 03, 2008, 04:31:54 PM

yeah just click in avr that your using the 168 instead of 8 and um as long as youve got a version of avr that came out after the 168 i think u should be fine

Title: Re: Can I use any other free program besides ponyprog?
Post by: Jdog on December 03, 2008, 07:05:01 PM

I did that but i'm still getting an error after I write it saying wriite failed.

Title: Re: Can I use any other free program besides ponyprog?
Post by: Admin on December 05, 2008, 10:24:59 AM

double posting = bad ;D

http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=6008.msg45990#msg45990

(my theory is you're uploading a .hex meant for an ATmega8)

Title: Re: Can I use any other free program besides ponyprog?
Post by: Jdog on December 05, 2008, 10:56:51 PM

This was originally just a post for the question on in the title but then it led into what my other post was about, I wasn't trying to double post. Sorry about it anyway. I compiled the program that is in the tutorial for the Atmega 168 and it still doesn't work. I'm wondering if the code itself, or the makefile or the header files is not compatible with the 168.

Title: Re: Can I use any other free program besides ponyprog?
Post by: javafiend on December 08, 2008, 10:19:54 AM

I use Eclipse with the AVR Eclipse Plugin (http://avr-eclipse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/The_AVR_Eclipse_Plugin) (google it for even more info) and am very happy with it.  I can write c code, with the c plugin, compile and upload all from the same application.  Oh yeah, on a computer running Ubuntu Linux.