Step 3: A bit about the dragon
The avr dragon is a pretty mean bit of kit, it supports loads of different kinds of way to program avr microntrollers, it even has JTAG! (note the added enthusiasm to mask the fact i don't actually know what JTAG is, from what i've heard it sounds fun, i'll hopefully get round to learning about it someday.)
Of worthy note is it has in-circuit debugging, a similar system for PIC microcontrollers will set you back near ÃÂã100 (the MPLAB ICD2, we use them alot at uni), i bought my dragon from http://www.rapidonline.com for around ÃÂã34, so i was rather chuffed.
There is a large area on the board for you to add your own headers and ZIF socket's ect. i had none of these to hand so i kept it simple and used ISP to program my avr.
(for a brilliant instructable on populating the empty bits see this )
so to use the ISP thingy we need an ISP cable!
forward to the next step!
Of worthy note is it has in-circuit debugging, a similar system for PIC microcontrollers will set you back near ÃÂã100 (the MPLAB ICD2, we use them alot at uni), i bought my dragon from http://www.rapidonline.com for around ÃÂã34, so i was rather chuffed.
There is a large area on the board for you to add your own headers and ZIF socket's ect. i had none of these to hand so i kept it simple and used ISP to program my avr.
(for a brilliant instructable on populating the empty bits see this )
so to use the ISP thingy we need an ISP cable!
forward to the next step!
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