Ive been working took long without a dev board. I think its about time to get one.
Is the STK600 really worth it over the 500? I cant get over the fact they want $100 for each adapter kit.
Does anyone know of any “clones” or other off brand boards with much the same features? Really I’m just looking for easy ways to hook up participial, with jumpers, and has buttons a LEDs on board. I have a JTAG MKII so It doesn’t relay need to have any built in programing capability. Just ability to hook such a programmer up.
If there’s nothing out there cheaper than the STK500 with similar features ill probably just get one of those. DK and mouser have been out of stock for a couple months with them. Are they no longer produced?
I can only comment on the STK-500. I bought it several years ago and it’s great for prototyping. You can quickly hook up buttons and lights, all the pins are brought out to connectors in 2 locations, it has a built-in programmer. I also use it just as a programmer for boards that have isp connectors.
Hi all, I have an stk500 from years ago, but I don’t have any COM ports on my current desktop machine that I’ll be using for development. Does it make more since to get a USB → RS232 converter or just get something like the pocket programmer
So I’m having a little bit of trouble piecing the info together. To use the STK500 with a USB->RS232 converter, I’ll have to use something like avrdude to program, right?
MrPerfectionest:
So I’m having a little bit of trouble piecing the info together. To use the STK500 with a USB->RS232 converter, I’ll have to use something like avrdude to program, right?
I cant comment on AVRdude, but AVR Studios workes fine.
I use the cheap radioshack USB-> RS232 converter with my STK500.
As for getting started, the STK500 is great, i use mine primary to program remote devices (ISP) and to recover my MCUs when i set the wrong bits.
the stk500 and the Pocket AVR programmer are in different categories.
Both program devices but the STK is a dev board and the programmer is just a programmer.
The STK has some useful things like buttons and LEDs all to pin headers that you can quickly wire up using jumpers for a test board. All IO ports are brought to headers for the same reason. And as qema said it support HVP for resetting a device which you may have incorrectly set fuses on. These are things you cannot do with the pocket programmer which only supports ISP.
Ive had my STK500 sense may now and am not sure how I lived without it for this long.
The new AVR STK600 uses USB for connectivity to the PC but costs over double the STK500 and THEN you still need to buy the adapter boards which will be another $100. It would be $300 total for the 600 as compared to $79 + a rs232 to USB adapter for the 500. I think Atmel got greedy with the 600.