LOW COST AVR PROGRAMMERS

By RESISTORIA team, October 26th, 2009 in Tools | Comment (1)

When you step in to the world of digital electronics and microcontrollers is necessary to choose the type of microcontroller to work with. Whether it is the PIC, ARM, AVR or some other type, you will need a quality programmer. There are programmer devices who can program several different families of microcontrollers, but they are very expensive for someone who has just started adventure in the world of electronics.

All of us can program a microcontroler – it’s not a Rocket Science; all we need is an appropriate tool, or in this case a programmer device that is financially accessible. General disadvantage of these tools is that they can program only one type of microcontroller, but concerning the price, availability and your desire to get familiar with that particular types of microcontroller this is not such a big obstacle.

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Nowadays USB port is dominating the computer peripheral market over a serial and parallel port. That’s why most of programmers use USB port. Their main benefit is that they can be made out of components that you already have in your home electronic workshop.

In this article we will present the programmers for AVR microcontrollers that you can purchased for less than $100. We have tried to separate microcontrollers that you can make by yourself and the ones that are commercial and available for you to buy.