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The Atmel AVR Butterfly board is a microcontroller demo board that has a lot of onboard stuff including LCD display, etc. It is under $20 and can be programmed to do almost anything you can think of that will fit into a 16K micro. It has a serial interface and can be programmed using free software from your pc with a serial cable.
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The Atmel AVR Butterfly board is a microcontroller demo board that has a lot of onboard stuff including LCD display, etc. It is under $20 and can be programmed to do almost anything you can think of that will fit into a 16K micro.
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There are quite a few projects for the Butterfly on the net. Many are listed among the projects at AVRFreaks, a website devoted to all things AVR.
AVRFreaks website∞
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Atmel's web page on the Butterfly∞
To make it much easier to build into a project, a carrier board with compatible connectors for the Butterfly and prototyping area for your added circuitry makes it much easier. I was considering making one myself, but I found one:
The same fellow also has a good book on programming Microcontrollers using the Butterfly as the example. It comes with all the software needed, and the first couple chapters are freely downloadable:
The book can be purchased in hardcopy form or pdf.
There are quite a few projects for the Butterfly on the net. Many are listed among the projects at AVRFreaks, a website devoted to all things AVR.
AVRFreaks website∞
More AVR Info
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Atmel's web page on the Butterfly:
AVR Butterfly∞
To make it much easier to build into a project, a carrier board with compatible connectors for the Butterfly and prototyping area for your added circuitry makes it much easier. I was considering making one myself, but:
I found a really neat carrier board for the AVR Butterfly, allowing it to be connected to some real I/O:
The same fellow also has a good book on programming Microcontrollers using the Butterfly as the example. It comes with all the software needed:
He has a free pdf of the first couple of chapters, and the book can be purchased in hardcopy form or pdf.
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The AVR Butterfly
Microprocessor Project and Demo
The Atmel AVR Butterfly board is a microcontroller demo board that has a lot of onboard stuff including LCD display, etc. It is under $20 and can be programmed to do almost anything you can think of that will fit into a 16K micro.
Atmel's web page on the Butterfly:
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3146∞
To make it much easier to build into a project, a carrier board with compatible connectors for the Butterfly and prototyping area for your added circuitry makes it much easier. I was considering making one myself, but:
I found a really neat carrier board for the AVR Butterfly, allowing it to be connected to some real I/O:
http://www.smileymicros.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=59:59∞
The same fellow also has a good book on programming Microcontrollers using the Butterfly as the example. It comes with all the software needed:
http://www.smileymicros.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=26&MMN_position=2:2∞
He has a free pdf of the first couple of chapters, and the book can be purchased in hardcopy form or pdf.
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