AVR-Chat

> I just completed building my own programmer based on the 
> AVR910 app note 
> (http://atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/DOC0943.PDF ) and the 
> helpful notes and code I found on this website: 
> http://www.serasidis.gr/circuits/avr_isp/avr_isp.htm.

The problem with this AVR910 programmer is that it is so slow.... I have
used it but only when I had to. Mostly I used the MegaLoad Bootloader on a
Mega8 so I used the AVR910 programmer to load the bootloader and then just
used the bootloader which is _really_ fast.

However, I finally brought the ATAVRISP serial programmer for about US$29
from digikey, but you may want to look at this project:
http://www.siwawi.arubi.uni-kl.de/avr_projects/avrispre/index.html however
consider the cheapness of the real thing - is it worth it?

Alex