Hi all:
I'd like to try programming AVRs outside of Arduino, so read with interest the Adafruit tutorial here: http://www.ladyada.net/learn/avr/index.html, which advises to obtain the latest WinAVR, with a link to sourceforge.
However, the latest package at sourceforge is over 4 years old, which seems suspect -- surely the constituent packages have moved on since then, not to mention the chips? Is this still the recommended setup for Windows? If not, what is?
Thanks! -- Graham
WinAVR: Is this still the way to go?
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Re: WinAVR: Is this still the way to go?
If you're using Windows, you may as well go with Atmel Studio: http://www.atmel.com/microsite/atmel_studio6/
Atmel has done a good job of being hobbyist-friendly in the past few years, so their IDE and code libraries are well-supported and free. They sell some add-on services like repository hosting, but the everyday hobbyist can work happily without them.
Atmel has done a good job of being hobbyist-friendly in the past few years, so their IDE and code libraries are well-supported and free. They sell some add-on services like repository hosting, but the everyday hobbyist can work happily without them.
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Re: WinAVR: Is this still the way to go?
Thanks for the reply. Sounds good, I'll go with Atmel Studio. Perhaps your tutorial could be updated accordingly?
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Re: WinAVR: Is this still the way to go?
Actually, those are legacy pages. We keep them online to avoid creating dead links all over the web, but our new documentation lives over in the Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/
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Re: WinAVR: Is this still the way to go?
It would be helpful if the outdated tutorial pages were replaced with redirects or links to the new pages. Dead links are bad, but obsolete tutorials are worse.
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Re: WinAVR: Is this still the way to go?
WinAVR is far from obsolete. It's much faster to use for some small projects than the resource-heavy Studio 6. It's easier to customize and great for quick and dirty little projects. I use it much more frequently than I use Atmel's tools.
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