[McHUG] Progress

[Peter Morton]

Well, after I loaded a simple blinking LED program into the Atmega128 flash 
using PonyPong, I see that PonyPong allows you to read the flash.  I could 
have saved the test program before I overwrote it.  Oh well.  I learned 
something.

I have been digesting all the stuff Steve handed me out in the parking after 
dinner at Stables Friday night.  After wadiing and sorting through all the 
AVR hardware, miscellaneous parts, other stuff, the CDs in the box, and read 
dozens of informational PDFs, I have finally done the following:

Assembled the ET AVR Start Kit V1 EXP and the ET AVR Stamp ATMega128 boards.

Connected the RS232 CH0 port to the laptop and ran Hyperterminal, connected 
the LCD display to the ET-CLCD port and powered up.  The preloaded test 
program works.

Loaded CodeVisionAVR V1.24.7e , AVR Studio 4.13.158, WINAVR (not sure why, 
yet), PonyPong2000, and AVR Calc.

Used CodeVisionAVR (used the CodeWizardAVR which is pretty neat as it 
initializes all the ports the way you want them and inserts the header file 
for your particular controller) and AVR Studio 4 to create a project, edited 
a C program to blink an LED on port A0, ran Make, Debug (I think) and 
created a downloadable Hex file.

Ran PonyPong2000 with the parallel port interface and ET AVR ISP and 
programmed flash memory in the ATMega128.

The LED blinks.

Dam' you, Steve.