ETT boards : Main
Achatz Electronics, just like the majority of board developers, moved development towards webenabled microcontrollers. Apparently that is what people want. Apparently, I am not people. I want a small controller on a small board that does small things. With all the I/O's brought out to headers and a prototyping area and integrated power supply and and and....
You figured it: I want a hobbyist level board that has it all. And I don't want to make it myself. Most modern processors and controllers are rather complicated. So a medium complexity board will keep you designing for weeks. And then wirewrapping for another two weeks. And the result looks like shit. At least, when compared to the board above...
This is a multilevel board, consisting of:
The target is to use the ETT boards for testing the Plov compiler. For this, I need a series of boards with stable processors that are available off the shelf at a reasonable price. So ETT was a good find.
The topics
Below are the topics covered in this section. The topics are mentioned in chronological order: newest edition is further down the page. I think that makes easier reading.
ET-AVR Stamp Module
Originally I wanted to run my tests on the Achatz MWS 2.00 board. But that was taken out of production for various reasons. The most important was that the involved processor was getting outdated. So I looked around and found the ETT boards. This is my first ETT processor board. It is shown in the picture above.
ETT programmer
ETT make a universal programmer for ICSP programming their devices. It connects to the LPT port and can be used by PonyProg for sure and AVRdude probably. Or with your own software of course. This is a very intriguing programmer. Simple yet versatile. With a signal shaper for Atmel processors.
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