Comments on: AVR Dragon’s at uCHobby

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:03:54 +0000

The Dragon is absolutely wonderful. I’ve got one I’m using for an undergraduate senior project and I am very happy with it. After not doing things this way, I recommend:

1) Soldering a DIP socket onto the large area on the right to support any chip
2) Soldering female pin sockets, if possible, onto the interface area
3) Creating a couple connectors for your favorite programming method. I’m a fan of JTAG. I’m not sure about all atmel chips, but the ones I use have the JTAG connectors right next to each other, so a simple 4-bin connector would work wonders.

By: Jkx

Jkx — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:40:09 +0000

I just wrote a little tuto about using AVR Dragon with GDB (and DDD) on Linux. Hope this will help some people (most people use the Dragon as a ISP, but you can use it as a JTAG too)

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:21:29 +0000

More like, apostrophe abuse at uCHobby. But seriously, thanks for documenting this.

By: Berni

Berni — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:39:11 +0000

That box sure looks good, my pickit 2 came in a plastic box like any other peice of electronics

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:14:07 +0000

The Dragon is barebones as shipped. You might check out the Dragon Rider (http://www.ecrostech.com/AtmelAvr/DragonRider/index.htm) which makes an OK dragon board into a fantastic development environment.

By: dfowler

dfowler — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:22:32 +0000

I got some various kinds of pots to look at for breadboard adapters and a switching power supply chip to play with.

By: Florin

Florin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:39:35 +0000

Nice. I also like the nice packaging . What else did you got there?