Entries from Spiff's Electronics Notebook tagged with 'Programmer'


A High-Volume Atmega Arduino Programmer and Tester (April 1, 2008)

I need to program several dozen Atmega168s and I only own ICSP Atmel programmers; what to do? Bodge one up of course. Best of all, the bodged programmer functions as an Arduino test bed.

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Repairing a KITSRUS Kit 150 for ICSP (January 29, 2008)

In the beginning, I fell in love with the Kitsrus Kit 150 PIC programmer for it's socketed automatic programming mode. The kit was priced right, supported most of the chips I encounter, and available locally. Over the years, I've ended up with five of them.

Recently, I discovered none of them function for ICSP or 40-pin parts. (Normally I use a JDM2 clone for ICSP, this was the first test of the K150.)

Obviously, some investigation was in order.

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