Vacation update #2

Hello!

The cut in right toe is healing with flesh grown and it takes five to six months for the nail to grow back. Three weeks went by and I am walking free. Bought another Atmega328 and USBasp programmer. Had to troubleshoot several issues. 

In this gap since last post did lot of reading about PCB layout and fabrication, sensors, interfacing, avrdude. Now learning EAGLE and need to run few programs in the chip and buy some stuff.

Goutham

Vacation update #1

Hello!

Good things happened till this point of time. I learned few important aspects of AVR MCUs like fuses, code efficiency and makefiles. I had to struggle with making makefile to compile and get the hex file out so that it can be uploaded to the chip with AVRDUDE. I also made a permanent 'seat' for my atmega328. Inserting and removing the chip from breadboard endangers its pins.

Had a minor surgery on right toe today at my hometown. Doctor commanded bedrest for 10 days. That is really bad but still I can read something. Now I am on quest to learn AVR C. That is all I can do for the next couple of weeks. I also need to allocate budgets for some projects yet to be done like kvasar, Piano tiles machine, waking machine, USBasp and quadcopter.

Much yet to do!

Goutham