AVR-Chat

At 07:59 PM 3/15/2005, you wrote:


> >
> >   Not too cumbersome. Invest a few bucks in a KVM. I did this a few  months
> >ago and it's has really improved productivity around here. I personally
> >like having all my eggs in one basket for development, but....
>
>Hmm.. I tried those before, and had bad luck. but they were just mechanical
>switches.
>Is there better stuff available now?

The current ones are very slick. Handle hi-res displays. ps-2 style mice 
and keyboards. Newest ones do USB.
Hot key switches between PCs. They also got quite cheap. Under 50 bucks for 
name brand / two machine version with cables. More then two machines, or 
very long cable lengths, price goes up .

  Honestly, it made a huge difference around here not having to deal with 
two keyboards and monitors. Actually I do have two monitors because I run a 
dual headed system normally. But a quick hot key press and suddenly the 
second monitor is on the secondary box, and keyboard and mouse follow along.


> >
> >   (had my own nightmares with ice-200)
>
>You know, I never had a problem with the ICE-200, but I haven't actually
>used it since before S4 came out.
>That may not be a coincidence.
>It was solid as a rock for me under the older S2.x and 3.x
>I shoveled out some BIG projects with that thing, in fact my first project
>was on an 8515, and I went from "what's an AVR" to a completed commercial
>project in 6 weeks.

  Love the ice-200. Very early on I was having some very weird inconsistent 
problems and was about to give up on it.. Tracked it down to some weird 
windows / comm port issue. Never had a problem after that. And it's a great 
bargain.  I really really wish there was something equivalent for the 
mega8. (yes I know about debug wire and various jtag options)