

an USB driver for the application to use.the flashing application itself, which is Java based and called "Flip".

There's an USB bootloader in there, to take care of the flashing, but to be able to use it you'll need the following: I'll assume the use of a Minimus USB board and Windows, for the rest of this guide.Įxcept for the bootloader, the flash should be pretty much blank on arrival, yet you probably found a test program that tests the LEDs or something, that you want to run to confirm that the board is good. The following post assumes that you're completely new to AVR development, and aims at helping you getting started. Recently purchased a Minimus USB clone as these have gotten relatively cheap thanks to all the current PS3 hacking (Disclaimer: I don't have a PS3 and don't care much about what other non-development use these boards are also being targeted at).Īll this to say that getting an Atmel AT90USB162 based board, or similar, has now gotten cheap enough that you might as well get one, if you're planning to play with USB, using Atmel AVR chips.
