Getting started with ubuntu and the AVR dragon

Step 7 All done!

Plug in the power to the microcontroller and you should have a pretty pulse width modulated flashy LED thingy! (hopefully not as messy as the one below).

Here are some good links:

www.avrfreaks.net
The forums are great, and seem very accommodating to newbs if you ask nice and polite.
http://www.ladyada.net/library/avrdevtut/index.html
A brilliant tutorial, pretty much makes this obsolete, but i only found it while writing this.
http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/group__demo__project.html
Great beginners tutorial for using avr-gcc
http://www.nongnu.org/avrdude/user-manual/avrdude_4.html#SEC4
Pretty much all you need to know about avrdude
www.rapidonline.com
Where i get most of my bits and pieces from (i think its probably UK only)

http://www.instructables.com/id/Ghetto-Programming%3a-Getting-started-with-AVR-micro/
http://www.instructables.com/id/AVR-mini-board-with-additional-boards/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Ghetto-Development-Environment/
various other good instructables made by people clever than i.
(just search for AVR and theres lots of good stuff)

hope this is of some use to somebody.

*tips top hat*
}{itch

Comments

[jonathanjo]

hi itch thanks for such clear help. attached is a video of the oscilloscope trace of the pulse-width changing. thanks again.