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Ah, the good old days where computers had a serial port and you could assemble an AVR programmer on a breadboard to flash an AVR and build a USB programmer.. Pr
by aldami 2y ago
Ah, the good old days where computers had a serial port and you could assemble an AVR programmer on a breadboard to flash an AVR and build a USB programmer.. Programmer bootstrapping ?
But you're right, the tooling has come a long way. The proliferation of ARM in so many domains means lowly microcontrollers can benefit, as opposed to being bound by the manufacturer or community size.
Hopefully RISC-V will improve this even further.
- SomeoneFromCA 2y agoThe simpest AVR programer, widely used in ex-USSR was called "5 wires" and consisted of 5 wires, ic-socket and 25 pin connector for the parallel port.
- crest 2y agoThree resistors and a parallel port?
- hashtag-til 2y ago> Hopefully RISC-V will improve this even further. In was more hopeful in past then I'm now with the RISCV ecosystem. The issue there is fragmentation, so it's not RISCV... every vendor will have their tooling because they'll be adding their secret sauce that they wont be sharing with everyone else, which is a shame.