Society of Robots - Robot Forum
Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: jamort on June 21, 2009, 12:26:12 AM
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ok so I like to work on 5 projects or so at the same time.... and I really think its a waste of money buying a bunch of serial programmers to add onto each board... so my question is were i normally use atmega 8 or 16 can I build a board with a socket to put the ic chip in and program it then put it in the actual board that im using... I see tools online about removing the chips but nothing about actually doing something to this extint and hope you'll can understand what I'm saying
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i don't see why not
but some projects it may be easier to have the MCU permanent
if you are building a robot for a competition that requires a demonstration and/or has strict guidelines that requires a serial port on the actual bot make sure that you don't cut corners.
some one in a comp i entered did what your tallking about and when they found he did not follow the guidelines they disqualified him
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Hi,
ok so I like to work on 5 projects or so at the same time.... and I really think its a waste of money buying a bunch of serial programmers to add onto each board...
Just make one programmer and an ICSP socket on each board.
Something like http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/avrtargetboards (http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/avrtargetboards)
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I got tired of wiring ICSP headers on protoboard, I had wires going everywhere that just made everything messy. So I made this chip piggyback thing:
(http://i43.tinypic.com/2guy7h5.jpg)
(http://i42.tinypic.com/ic44s3.jpg)
This way I can completely skip the ICSP header, and even make circuits and program them all on bread boards. When I want to program I just put it right on top of the chip and connect the ICSP programmer.
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i like the design RAZOR... I was hoping to have something just to stick it in and program it.. normally i only have to program each chip three times so unless its not upright i dont think it will hurt to have it loosely fit as long as it makes connections....
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why not just rig up a small board with a regulator, 28 pin socket and the programmer headers?
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thats basically what i said in my post :P
just hard to understand lol
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thats basically what i said in my post :P
just hard to understand lol
My advice: use a ZIF (Zero Insertion Force) socket like this one: http://futurlec.com/Sockets/ZIFU28.shtml (http://futurlec.com/Sockets/ZIFU28.shtml)
It's a bit more expensive but you won't regret it.
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thats basically what i said in my post :P
just hard to understand lol
My advice: use a ZIF (Zero Insertion Force) socket like this one: http://futurlec.com/Sockets/ZIFU28.shtml (http://futurlec.com/Sockets/ZIFU28.shtml)
It's a bit more expensive but you won't regret it.
that looks like the best bet....