In the second episode of the microcontroller tutorial I take a look at the various programmers and target boards I want to use for the tutorial. While the target boards are only really needed to get started, the programmers(/debuggers) are going to stay with us throughout the entire series.
BIVBlog #37: Microcontroller Toolchain Bootstrap Fundamentals
Getting started with microcontrollers isn’t exactly easy. This video is the first of a series of episodes that give a somewhat non-standard introduction; not only do I take a comparative approach, examining the Atmel AVR, Microchip PIC and Texas Instruments MSP430 families in parallel, I also use Linux and various open source development tools (with […]
BIVBlog #32: Getting rid of the FTDI chip in the ARRGH board (and elsewhere)
Some crazy things have happened since the previous episode: There were rather mysterious test results with different Zener diodes that took me some time to figure out, I’m actively joining forces with the Cryptech project and I’ve ordered the first generation of proper test PCBs among other things.