Date   : Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:14:59
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: [BeebSoc] Re: Harddisc fakery using a microcontroller

On 24 November 2010 01:28, Rick Murray <heyrick.beebsoc@...> wrote:
> On 23/11/2010 07:00, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
>
>> You might be better off with one of these :
>> http://atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc8272.pdf
>>
>> AVR Atmega 1284, 128K of flash and 16K of ram, also available in DIP,
>
> I was blown away by the capabilities of the PIC. Having read the datasheet
> for the ATmega, I'm speechless. I think I'll dump my homebrew computer board
> project as this one thing does it all, and lots more, in a single chip.

I've got a couple of ATmega8L here that I used to use as an OpenWII
chip... really ought to play with them more.


> 2. Is there a *cheap* USB programmer? I specify USB as it's all my
> ? eeePC offers.

Hmm.  Plenty of circuits about.  Mine was a handful of discretes onto
a parallel port - the openwii website is long gone, but google turned
up a similar circuit for the bigger chips:
http://www.captain.at/electronics/atmel-programmer/


Rob.