AVR on a MAC: Blinky success

freeduino-1.jpgAs a first step, the blinking of an LED is an essential part of development for a new processor and environment. I had read somewhere that the bootloader on an arduino was compatible with an avrisp/STK500 programmer. That turns out to be quite right!

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AVR on the MAC

7C0C36AB-CBD4-4652-9631-C533CE111905.jpgAfter many hours playing with the new iMac, it is time to get something ‘proper’ done with it. By proper, I mean, of course, some microcontroller development. To start with, I have been looking at the AVR.

 
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