8 Dec
2008
8 Dec
'08
11:18 a.m.
AVR will quite happily send you several kilos of dead
trees detailing
all this and more, if you ask them. I find that since I'm generally
Right :-). When I have some spare time, I'll contact them...
carrying several kilos of laptop already, the PDF
editions will suffice.
I much prefer the dead-tree version of documentation, and having got a
slow connection and a slow printer, it's not really practical for me to
download and print 300 page documents...
I feel there's a business oportunity for someone to set up a company that
will print a document from the web (at a certain cost per page) and post
it out. I don't know of any such organisation in the UK, the local
internet cafe charges, IIRC, \pounds 1.00 per page printing, which is
hardly useful for large documents.
Could I, if I wanted, make the programmer and
write the software from
scratch?
Since avr-gcc and avrdude are already available under the GPL and fully
documented, there's no real need to reinvent that particular wheel.
In short - if you wanted to program an AVR the "oldskool EPROM" way by
setting lines by hand and toggling VPP with a push switch, you could
(and I have seen this done!). It may be slightly more worth your time
and effort to learn how to use the existing tools ;-)
Well, I am not going to write a C compiler from scratch. But certainly
for some of the simpler tools I've found it quicker in the past to write
my own versions.
-tony