On Apr 1, 2006, at 9:33 PM, kravnus wolf wrote:
>
> What AVR programmer do you recommend?
>
I have not yet succeeded (or tried, even) to get an AVR programmer
working from the Mac.  If I can do editing, compile, and maybe simulate
all on the Mac, I'm pretty willing to move to a PC for the actual
programming.

I have a STK-500, which is nice and complete, but requires moving
a bunch of jumpers to program some AVRs.  Annoying.
I have a JTAGICE, though it looks like it won't be useful for the
chips I'm most likely to be using. [both of these were FREE for
putting up with a one-day Atmel Seminar that they hold in major
cities every couple of years.  The stk-500 a couple years ago,
the jtagice more recently.  And the seminars were relatively
interesting as well!]

I think I have a STK-200 somewhere too, from a long time ago.

Most of the recent playing I've been doing is a result of the
tiny11 group buy a couple years back ($0.25 each!), using a
homebrew programmer described here:
    http://geocities.com/westfw/electronics/attiny11-prog-notes.html

It's managed to put several chips into "doesn't work and can't be
programmed again" mode, so I'm not sure it's perfect, but it works
most of the time...

BillW
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