Half-Byte » butterfly logger http://half-byte.com Doing more with less. Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:57:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Atmel AVR Butterfly Demo Board http://half-byte.com/2010/01/19/atmel-avr-butterfly-demo-board/ http://half-byte.com/2010/01/19/atmel-avr-butterfly-demo-board/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:21:19 +0000 nibble http://half-byte.com/?p=55 I’m not sure why I haven’t run across this in the past, but I just saw an AVR demo board called the AVR Butterfly.  It has an LCD, joystick, speaker, temperature sensor, a real-time clock, voltage sensor, and serial port all for an amazing $20 over at Mouser or DigiKey.  The whole package is [...]]]> Atmel's AVR ButterflyI’m not sure why I haven’t run across this in the past, but I just saw an AVR demo board called the AVR Butterfly.  It has an LCD, joystick, speaker, temperature sensor, a real-time clock, voltage sensor, and serial port all for an amazing $20 over at Mouser or DigiKey.  The whole package is about the size of a name tag and runs on a single button battery.

The Butterfly looks like a prime candidate for a cheap prototype platform (it has an ATmega169V Microcontroller) and diagnostic probe.  Not only that, people have been using it for other projects.  There’s a low power logger project called Butterfly Logger.  Another project called Buttload uses a Butterfly as an ISP Programmer.  So, instead of spending $22 for LadyAda’s USBtinyISP, you can give Buttload a shot since it can be modified to program over USB too.

I need to order one of these soon since I’m itching to mess with it.

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