Noob help connecting an Atmega8 to a programmer

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Hello all! I bought a bunch of stuff to play with over a year ago, and haven’t found a single college, tech institute, store or nerd who had a clue about where to begin with microprocessor programming, so I dumped everything in a box and forgot about it.

Recently, I decided to pull everything out and play with it, but I’m still stuck on the part where I need to get the code from my PC to the Atmega8 chip. I have a parallel programmer, plus a USB-to-parallel port since my computer doesn’t have a parallel port. However, I have no idea how to connect the Atmega8 to the 10 pins on the programmer.

I found [this site, and was trying to follow along, but he, like seemingly everyone else on the planet, skips the part where he’s actually connecting the chip to the programmer.

Can anyone help? Thanks!](First steps with micro controllers (ATMega8) – PocketMagic)

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noob help: avrfreaks.net and its user Forum. Look there for Smitty’s books (he’s on the forum). And his column on AVRs in C in the magazine named Nuts and Volts (see website).

here’s another

http://www.avrfreaks.net/index.php?modu … tem_id=668

and Atmel’s application notes - with code.

Projects section on AVRfreaks.net has zillions of freeware examples.

to download, a cheap way is to get an AVR ISP for USB, about $25. Check postings on avrfreaks.net.

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Awesome, I’ll check it out, thanks!

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One hint:

The USB to Parallel adapters will NOT work. They are only there for emulating printers, and don’t emulate the traditional parallel port fully.

I would recommend picking up a STK500 or compatible system, or an Arduino (cheap, all in one!)