programmer

Hello all, I have undertaken a challenge by freind to use only parts from broken equipment already in my possesion to make something amazing! (i thought id better clarify this befre people start replying 'easier to buy a pic or atmel chip) the only reprogrammable chip in my heap is the SINOWEALTH SM69P26K which i understand is an14k x 4bit mc, does anyone know where to find a schemat or how i can wire a basic R232 programmer cable to connect with? Macgyver status awaits! Thankyou for your time in advance!

Hello Everyone!

I am currently thinking on moving from Picaxe to microcontroller as Picaxe isnt available except by buying outside the country and microcontroller in that way seems to be a cheaper solution.

After some research I discovered i need C knowledge which i dont posses. So i found out of BASIC just like Picaxe is.

Problem is: which programmer to use... I dont really want to buy one so I was thinking on a free tool that could program BASIC and then I could slowly move onto C.

Does anyone know of any "good" software that could do this?

 

Hi guys.

from this post (http://letsmakerobots.com/node/5593 ) by Rudolph i learned that you can program an atmega with the arudino IDE even if you haven't got an arduino board.

What i have here with me now is an atmega328, a serial programmer (precisely this one: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=14 ).

Ok, got to the point where it's time to start coding and I got power to everything that needed it and started installing the drivers needed for the Picaxe programmer cable. Well to no avail. If anybody has an idea a walkthrough it would be appreciated.

 

Mech 

hey,

So i"m an advanced desktop/web apps programmer and MCTS WinDev so far, and I've done it all completely on my own.

 After a few weeks of research now I've realized I might be able to build a simple robot, I've already chosen my shop and products, my ideas are usually quite ambitious.

I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction.  I'm looking for a programmer/development board that your only limited to your knowledge and right now I don't have much, but will want to expand upon it without buying a whole new programmer/development board.  So I'm also looking for something that will be easy to get started in also with tutorial to get you up and running.  I don't want to start with something and be cut off and have to go out and buy something completely new and start all over again learning.  What would anyone recommend for me and had experience in?