No Arduino?

Posted at 6:48 am on Oct 13th, 2009 by Sturmflut

It is the same family of chip as Arduino.

The ATMega8 is kind of like the smaller brother to the ATMega168 that the Arduino uses. As such the pins are exactly the same, it just has a slightly reduced feature set.

I didn’t want to use an Arduino because A) i don’t own one and B) they’re a waste of a good piece of kit for a permanent thing like this. Oh and C) they’re a lot of money and would have nearly doubled the cost of the project!

The programmer, chip and cradle cost me less than an Arduino base pack and new micros are around £1.50-3 ($3-6) so it’s a substantial saving.

I’m also familiar with C (though no doubt my code needs a good cleanup) so that helped – no need to use processing.

Thanks for the feature guys :)

Posted at 11:39 am on Oct 13th, 2009 by Whiternoise

(or rather Wiring, i forget what Arduino use)

But anyway, you are correct – “No Arduino”!

Posted at 11:42 am on Oct 13th, 2009 by Whiternoise

This is a great write-up. I don’t own a camera and I still read the whole write-up. Lots to learn- that you can apply to other projects. Damn you Whiternoise, now I need buy a camera so I can make one of these. Thanks for the good write-up, they are few and far between.

-Yipsilant

Posted at 5:15 pm on Oct 13th, 2009 by Yipsilant

Hello!

Perfect project, I buld this but not working….
How set the fuse bit in ponyprog ?
Can you help me?

Thanks.

Posted at 4:19 am on Oct 17th, 2009 by vectragt