i use avrisp (arduino isp) all the time with my arduino, its 19200 baud and as fast as you would expect

yea this is pretty darn slow, so I dunno? wtf?

otherwise cool bit of robot action

That’s actually pretty cool. If I had a lot of chips to burn one day I’d build something similar.

If you break the programming up into two steps you can program at least @ 115200 using an Arduino’s FTDI as the programmer.

First you need to set just the fuse bits properly at the slower speed, then you can come back now that it is initialized and do the rest at the higher speed.

Will

@ will

yea but really its 2kb and the bit bang mode requires much more effort than “load sketch add 4 wires”

even at 19200 2k will only take like 100ms

I’m impressed

SkyNet uses something similar to program its Terminators.

Very nice, the speed does not seem to be that much of an issue, given the fire and forget nature of the setup.

Had I the skills to make this, I would have built a better unloading method than just dropping the chip into a foil bin. It seems like it does not lose suction immediately, though the program acts as if it does. Leading to the awkward pile in the corner of the bin. You might very well come back to a pile of chips outside of the bin.

Might I ask why he is programming so many? Sales?

If so you could easily set up a small conveyor type deal and have it drop them into anti static packaging, then roll them off into a box to be sealed and shipped after. I mean, he clearly demonstrated his ability to create such a system already lol

Would multiplexing be out of the question? I mean, he could load one, and while it’s writing to that chip, add another one and so on. Then go back to the first one to throw in the bin and down the line.

@mosheen

ld idiot, mute
ld video, shaky
set_self vomit
set_idiot high

Of course, all include files and definitions are in the “wtf.inc” file.

Back on track, I really do like. My question is, if he happens to try to optimize the program, will it still work the same or will there be more lag due to the changes?

Great idea for cranking out the chips while you go and do something more interesting. Where do the failed chips go?

Lovely setup!

But for day-to-day ATmega programming, I use a home-grown 4-fold stand-alone programmer. It’s faster because it has 4 burns running in parallel (or staggered, I just keep replacing chips in a round-robin fashion).

http://jeelabs.org/2010/06/10/a-happy-ending/

For lots more on ISP programming, see:

http://jeelabs.org/tag/isp/

Still, it’s neat to see this pick-and-place type machine!

I think the ‘lag’ in the drop is intentional, it looked messy for the first chip but then I noticed the second bumped up against the first one before it fell off, they will be stacked up in the sequence they were programmed without the need to calculate a new drop position each time.

The sequence is important because the system looks like it allows for my than one type of job in the job queue.

nice project