Here's a quick brain dump of the differences between FTDI and AVR programming cables.
- Arduino things use the FTDI adapter. FTDI is basically a serial/usb converter.
- FTDI is a company, their main product is a serial/usb chip.
- The Arduino boot loader has code to handle the ftdi loading process.
- Shown is the Solarbotics FTDI basic breakout.
- The KK Board is more hard-core, non-arduino, "pure" atmel.
- AVR programmer is used to "flash" the on-board chip memory, like writing an eprom.
- If you want to take an atmel chip and make it into an arduino chip, you would use an AVR programmer and flash the arduino boot loader.
- Likewise, you use an AVR programmer to flash the kkboard software onto the atmel chip.
- Daddy87 has a great tutorial here.
- "Name brand" AVR programmers are, ironically, more expensive than the HK KKboard .
- But, lots of cheap vendors on ebay, all based on the open-source hardware design of Thomas Fischl: http://www.fischl.de/usbasp
- This one is from ProtoStack.
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