Or does that chip require a bunch of weird voltages that can only be generated by a "special" expensive device programmer?

I would like to start using PICs in my projects and was wondering which programmer I should get. I have plenty of experience using micro-controllers (68k, avr), I also have lots of …

I've been looking into doing some PIC Programming, but unlike some of the other microcontrollers available the sheer number of different chips available has caused me some confusio …

Is there any cheap and very extensible robot kit, which can work with Microsoft Robotics? I want to have a great choice of cool parts for a robot to buy :) If where is no such …

Okay, having decided to pitch myself at the PIC family (including dsPIC), I now have a question about programmers. I've been hearing a lot of bad things about the new PICKit 3, and …

For those of you that haven't heard of the mbed I'd highly recommend having a look at it for rapid prototyping! So, the mbed is a 100MHz microprocessor that appears as a usb mass …

I want to hack my Samsung DVD player. But the IC used it a Sanyo LC87F5NC8A. I don't have a programmer that can dump or program this UC. Any advice ??

I'm having a problem programming a PIC18F97J60 with pk2cmd.exe. Using the same hex file I can program the device fine with MPLAB and the PicKit2 programming utility, but I'd like t …

I've recently bought an Olimx ARM-USB-OCD JTAG programmer but I've had difficulty getting it to work. My primary system is linux, but I've tested it in window with no luck there …

Can you use the Arduino as an AVR programmer?

I am playing with an ATtiny13 and I thought it would be good to use it with an external 8Mhz ceramic oscillator instead of the 1.2 Mhz built-in one. (I want to do a soft-uart at 96 …

Hi I've done some dev using AVR's. I'd really like to use the arduino but continue using atmel tools. Is this straightforward? Is there a converter that I can use my 910 prog …

I need to build a programmable current source from a 8051 microcontroller. It needs an output current from 0 to 10mA maximun. How do i go about doing this? what circuits do i n …

I'm trying to get the Lilypad working on my machine but i get the following error. I had a google for it but everything keeps pointing to a problem with the board. I swapped it o …