For the last 3 or 4 years I’ve been an Acanac ADSL subscriber, today I defected to Cogeco. I’ve always hated the big providers in Canada, those being Bell, Rogers and Cogeco. You can’t escape them here. Even when subscribing to Acanac I was actually using Bell’s lines and technology, but for a discounted price [...]
I’ve been monkeying around with different ways of uploading the sketches and bootloaders to ATmega chips and one of those ways is with the USBTinyISP which I picked up for about $10 on eBay. Even though once my bootloader was installed I never really needed to use the ISP programmer on my Arduino again I [...]
I recently discovered that we had an old AVR STK500 development board lying around at work and when I had some free time I decided to play with it and see if I could use it to burn the Arduino Bootloader onto some old ATmega168 chips we had lying around. I was somewhat overwhelmed by [...]
