Thanks, Neil, I'll keep looking at Atmel's website.

The reason this comes up now is that I want to enter the Circuit Cellar
contest.  I also looked into the PSoC during that contest, but never
pulled it together.  I bet the hardware from that contest could be
duplicated for a simple programmer.  If there's interest I'll dig mine out
and see what all it entails.  Probably not too much, as I remember it
being scarcely more than a DB25 to connect to your parallel port and a
9V battery.

Mike H.

>Mike,
>
>I'm not sure about a migration guide (especially not from Microchip), but I
>had been looking into the AVR as well some months ago, and found a number
>of
>good tutorials on the subject, mostly from AVR's site.
>
>I agree that reading datasheets is not the most effective way to learn, but
>perhaps not the least effective way.  The best way I thought to go about it
>was to just pick up a programmer board (IIRC, the STK500 seemed like the
>way
>to go) and experiment ... start with some sample circuits/code, then
>modify,
>then write my own, and use the datasheets as tutorials/references, etc.
>
>However, when evaluating all of this, I got into looking at the PSoC, which
>seemed like another notch up, and I thought I'd go that route.  But i never
>did find any simple/low-cost programmers for it, and it sort of dropped off
>due to lack of time.
>
>Cheers,
>-Neil.

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