Arduino, electronics and stuff
Clear and simple drawing of the AVR ISP port pinout available in multiple formats.
Inspired by Todd’s minimal Arduino on a breadboard I made a slightly more advanced version on a protoboard piece. I wanted an ISP port for bootloader upload, an FTDI port for communication, auto reset for program upload from Arduino IDE, and a LED to see that it is working properly.
The end result turned out something [...]
Update 2009-07-21: improved rules in this post.
I bought an Atmel AVRISP MkII today, happily plugged it in hoping that my Linux box running Ubuntu 9.04 amd64 would accept it, but I was wrong.
I was told: avrdude: usb_open(): cannot read serial number “error sending control message: Operation not permitted”
After google:ing a bit I found this old [...]
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JArduino? What’s that? Yet another Arduino clone?
No, I am sorry but it is not quite that easy. My name is Johan Adler, my initials are JA, I am (quite) new to electronics and microcontrollers and my first MCU contact was with the Arduino (2k9, but in Italian, however that is supposed to be spelled/pronounced).
I will [...]
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