Re: Microcontroller kit

From: Ulf Samuelsson (ulf_at_NOSPAMatmel.com)
Date: 01/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:30:23 +0100

"Richard" <rh86@azglobal.com> wrote in message
news:4007FD46.10B09288@azglobal.com...
> > Atmel has their STK500 board ($90?) . This comes
> > with switches and LEDs and a Flash RAM. I haven't
> > played with this yet.
>
> This is a good dev kit for ad-hoc proto work (I'm very happy with mine),
> but maybe not so good of a demo kit. You can use it with many different
> Atmel MCUs, but it's missing some common peripherals (like an LCD).
> OTOH, Atmel has recently released a small (cheap, ~USD$30) eval board
> (AVR Butterfly) with an LCD:
> http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3146
>
> And don't forget about the fanatics at http://www.avrfreaks.net/ ;-)

The STK502 addonboard supports the ATmega169 with segmented LCD (100
segments) 

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