Just like a PC’s USB port, the serial port on a PC can also in some cases serve as a power supply. A USB port can provide as much as 500 mA at 5V, but a serial port provides less power. Even with the ...

[Sergey Lyubka] put together this epic guide for bare-metal microcontroller programming. While the general concepts should be applicable to most any microcontroller, [Sergey]s examples specifically ...

When it comes to AVR microcontrollers the most common programming option is In-System Programming (ISP). ISP interface is easy to use but in some scenarios it is totally unusable. The most common ...

USBasp is an in-circuit serial programmer designed for the Atmel AVR Microcontroller family. It is a low-cost programmer that converts hex files (.hex) into AVR microcontrollers, utilizing an Atmega8 ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a reliable wireless configuration bits programmer for remotely resetting incorrectly-written Microchip AVR microcontrollers’ Fuses and Lock Bits. The incorrect ...

Back when he was about seven years old, [Ytai] learned to program on an Atari 800XL. Now he has a seven-year-old of his own and wants to spark his interest in programming, so he created these ...

I bought this programmer from here. I was happy with my DIY Serial Programmer, but I had to change/upgrade my old PC, and none of the new PCs in market, has a serial port anymore. DAMN... so, I was ...