<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Wm<div><br><div>2 things about the dragon. Its novery robust (easy to fry) and to get the most out of it you have to be running windows and avrstudio. </div><div>The dragon manual explains most of the pinouts well enough and there are different device names in avrdude for the configurations ie dragon_isp dragon_xxx.</div><div>A couple of well placed blog entries should cover most of it. Its pretty straight forward.</div><div><br></div><div>As far as workshops go I think the basic electronics that you were discussing a while back would be much better time spent.</div><div><br></div><div>Theres my 20 pfennigs</div><div><br></div><div>Don</div><div><br><div><div>On May 6, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Wm Leler wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>OpenTechSpace is going to buy two AVR Dragon programmers to have out at the electronics lab at TechShop. So those will be available for people to use (for people who don't buy one for themselves).<br><br>With a bunch of people getting these, would it be a good idea to have a get together to share information on how to use them (or even an informal class)? You can use our space (if people are willing to come out to Beaver-tron!) If anyone is willing to organize this, please let me know.<br><br>--wm<br><br>On May 5, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Laen wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">A coworker came by to tell me that Arrow Electronics has AVR Dragon<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">programmers for $24.50 (plus $9 shipping). They're normally $50.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">It does JTAG, ISP, DebugWire, and High Voltage programming (to rescue<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">chips that have been fused incorrectly). They're USB and compatible<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Windows, Linux, and OS X (with avrdude and avrice).<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">If anyone wants one, let me know by Thursday and I'll add it to my<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">order. Looks like the same cost for shipping for 10 of them as it is<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">for one of them, so I'll divide it equally.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">-Laen<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org">dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org</a><br><a href="http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber">http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>