[sdiy] Beginners guide to ATMEL programming?

[Tim Ressel]

Julian,

Step one, get a compiler. I like WinAVR for it's freeness. Then search the web for other people's code. You can learn a lot just by seeing how someone else did it. The two hardest subsections to figure out are timers and uarts. Check out AVR Freaks: http://www.avrfreaks.net/
They have oodles of experts who love to help.

Good luck!

--TR

--- On Sun, 11/16/08, Julian <julian at port23.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Julian <julian at port23.co.uk>
> Subject: [sdiy] Beginners guide to ATMEL programming?
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 12:17 PM
> Learning how to program ATMEL devices is somthing that ive
> been wanting to get to for some time, however, im not so
> sure where to 
> start.
> 
> I know there's going to be a lot of information about,
> but i thought it best to ask here, as then ill specifically
> get answers from 
> the knowledge pool of interest : )
> 
> I have no background in C at all, however can often
> 'get the job done' (all be it not elegantly) with
> perl (so i have a very basic 
> understanding of such things, but nothing in-depth)
> 
> I have an atmel SK500 programmer / dev board about, but
> have used it for nothing other than writing other peoples
> .hex files to 
> micros before.
> 
> I have plenty of audio related ideas, but think it would be
> far better to start with simpler midi / trigger devices?
> 
> Anyway, anyone got any pointers / advice on where to start?
> 
> Thank you, Julian
>  
> 
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