AVR-Chat

Shamoon,

Depends on a lot of stuff.  Do you have a hardware target in mind?  Will you
be developing under Windows or Linux?  Do you use C or want to use strictly
assembly?  The first two toys I would get in terms of hardware are and
AVRISP (about $30US from digikey), and an AVR Butterfly.  If you just want
to see some code run, these two tools will allow you to program an AVR
that's connected to some typical hardware.  Download AVR Studio from
atmel.com for asm development and ISP programming.  That's the dirt cheap
approach, and in my opinion it's a big part of the reason why AVR is so
popular, i.e. it doesn't cost a fortune to get your feet wet.  If you're
looking to start coding in C tomorrow, I'd get codevisionavr, but if you're
comfortable with doing your own makefiles and don't mind open source stuff,
get the free winavr for Windows or avrgcc for Linux.

hth,

Tony Vandiver


----- Original Message -----
From: <honamos@yahoo.com>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 8:22 PM
Subject: [AVR-Chat] Complete Newbie


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> Hello everyone,
> I have SOME experience with the PIC line, but I was told that AVR is
> way better.  I have absolutely no experience with AVR's, so I was
> hoping someone could help guide me.  What do I need to get, etc, etc.
>  I look forward to learning a lot from all of you, and I hope to
> contribute when I am knowledgable enough to.
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> Thank you,
> Shamoon
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