This was started out as one of my things for Thing-A-Day (2008) (http://www.thing-a-day.com/2008/02/22/day-22-thing-22-the-15-wiring-board/) This follows my work getting the wiring software platform working on some generic mega128 boards. It is somehow related to my work on reducing the costs of the Arduino runtime to less than $4 I recently found the code for an Stk500v2… Read more »
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Adding and burning a different bootloader to the Arduino with the Arduino.
Q
Ok so its cool to have a programmer (http://www.dorkbotpdx.org/blog/feurig/dorkbotpdx_arduino_programmer) that you can use standalone but what is the best way to know that the bootloader you just burned works?
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Dorkbotpdx Arduino Programmer
Last week Eric (dr twist) and I got carried away and scored 100 Really Bare Bones Boards (rev A) from wulfden (http://www.wulfden.org/freeduino/freeduino.shtml) for $1.10 a board with shipping, along with the last group order which we ordered enough parts to make the 100 into “kits”. In order to program the 168s I built a programmer around Dean Camera’s “Buttload” (http://www.fourwalledcubicle.com/ButtLoad.php) butterfly based programmer and the 28 pin ziff socket that Paul Stoffregen (http://dorkbotpdx.org/wiki/PaulStoffregen) offered to loan us.
Day 29: Thing 29: One more thing
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/29/day-29-thing-29-one-more-thing/) Today I “made” my 12 year old son program his own robot on his own computer. It’s not a thing necissarily but a culmination of things (1,10,24,and,26). I didn’t take photographs of him doing it but I had him download the arduino platform and then walked him through running the blink example… Read more »
Day 28: Thing 28: Charley plexed display
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/28/day-28-thing-28-charley-plexed-display/) Today I made the software for some hardware that I built a while ago. The origional question was if I got 15000 leds for next to nothing and it costs 4-15 per 8×8 array (with the 4$ solution also needing 4 to eleven additional parts) to drive them are we getting anywhere?… Read more »
Day 27: Thing 27: The last of the 4 led arrays
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/27/day-27-thing-27-the-last-of-the-4-led-arrays/) And then there were 4. Since this is finally the end of this particular resin. I also went to get the right casting resin. Now to wire them up….
Day 26: Thing 26: PC Based Arduino Programmer.
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/26/day-26-thing-26-pc-based-arduino-programmer/) Since Aidan’s main computer is my old Del Lattitude running XP I realized that I should build a programmer for his system as it has a serial port. Basically its a max232 in a translucent plastic box with a buffer to drive some blinking lights so you know things are transmitting and… Read more »
Day 25: Thing 25: AntiSocial(ism)
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/25/day-25-thing-25-antisocialism/) I went to radio shack about a month ago and bought an utrasonic distance sensor made by parallax called a ping))). I have been feeling cranky and anti social lately so I thought I should make something that didnt want to be bothered. I am considering adding an air horn for people… Read more »
Day 24: Thing 24 — Mouse Whiskers (touch sensor)
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/24/day-24-thing-24-mouse-whiskers-touch-sensor/) Two weekends ago Aidan and I went to radio shack and he was looking at these $9 bug bots which have a sound sensor, two touch sensors (antennae) and 6 legs. He was very interseted in both the walking mechanism and the touch sensor. We decided that we should add one of… Read more »
Day 23: Thing 23: DELETED!!! (Button and screen)
(Archive of: http://www.thing-a-day2.com/2008/02/23/day-23-thing-23-deleted-button-and-screen/) After the last two days of disaster I got a new board in the mail. It has one of the new atmel USB avrs on it which I would like to work with instead of the the ftdi chipset for programming avrs and arduinos. Rather than attempt to do another complicated and… Read more »