Just to follow up -- Wayne had asked about avrdude support for the Dragon. I had sent an e-mail to Joerg just *after* he left on vacation, so he is just now...
Hi all, I now have a short navigation program working that the bot uses to navigate from a known X,Y position and heading to a waypoint with known X,Y...
Wayne, This article looked interesting with regards to a different solution for host interfacing (a hack to use the parity bit on a standard uarts for the 9th...
All: I have a consulting gig that is going to be taking me off to Austria for ~1 week. I leave late on Wednesday night (tomorrow) and arrive back a week from...
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I've switched the group over to moderated status. You can only join if your join request suggests that you actually know what the group is about. I suspect...
All: I was working on my robot today using a PIC16F876A in a Controller28 and, frankly, I think the PIC16F876A is pretty pathetic in this situation. For a...
I should go read the release notes carefully, I haven't upgraded yet, so I haven't looked at them. Some comments below. I hope my comments clarify, but, fair...
... yet, so ... [much snippage] ... Dave: Thanks. That is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. Could you (or anybody else) enlighten me about...
As some of you know, I've been working on a system similar to RoboBrick2 that uses the same connector but a different mechanical form factor and and talks CAN...
All: For the holiday season I managed to get myself an AVR-Dragon programmer/ICE system. Using the Dragon, I was able to write a program in C (including fuse...
... http://www.hbrobotics.org/wiki/index.php5/WRTSL54GS#Using_on_board_serial_port ... Brandon: I have not posted a circuit the WireHost conversion. The longer...
... On the subject of hosts -- one thing I am excited to play with but haven't had a chance, is the Atmel AT90USBKEY development board. This board is $36 at...
Dave (Curtis): The AT90USBKEY is a neat and inexpensive board. ... I just checked, it seems to be $31.92 at Digi-Key. ... My further comments are: 1) The...
... Bonus! Its gone down. ... That's worth checking. I've heard that the Dragon can debug up to the first 32K on the larger processors, so you just have to...
... Hi Wayne, Thanks for the additional information. I still have not got this working yet. One thing that is a little confusing to me is that above you say ...
... You are correct, that is a typo on my part. ... For revision C of WireHost, pin 11 and pin 15 are connected to ground. Other things to check are whether...
... [snip price] [snip AVR-Dragon issue] ... I do not have one yet. [snip .050" x .100" connectors issue] ... Actually, it can be touch and go. It depends...
... That is interesting. I have rev C but no connectivity between pin 11 and pin 15. I've jumped the two together now. ... Changing the baud rate in microcom...
... Perhaps a manufacturing defect? It is not something that I would easily detect, since that buffer of the Max232 is not used (i.e. pin 14 is NC.) ... ...
... <much snippage> ... Yes, I wasn't thinking about these being through-hole pads. So maybe a smallish pad, and don't try to route between them. ... Well, at...
So some good news. I can now talk to WireHost from the router using both on board serial ports! To get /dev/tts/0 to work I have to boot the router first then...
... Argh! I knew that and I did not write it down! We have to plug and unplug it as well. I have no idea why. ... I did not know to set the IRQ. That works...
Wayne, The ATJTAGICE2 at $300 is a bit pricey. But I just ordered 3 of the AT90USBKEY boards. I can help out with the software and if I really need to...
... The guy at <http://www.fourwalledcubicle.com/MyUSB.php> claims that his library is in stable condition. If it really is stable, all that should be...