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AVR – dockerized toolchain

Lightweight docker image built on top of alpine:3.10 with installed AVR toolchain and few additional tools: AVR8 toolchain (2019, AVR_8_bit_GNU_Toolchain_3.6.2_1759) avrdude (v6.3) make (v4.2) cmake (v3.14) DockerHub: https://hub.docker.com/r/lpodkalicki/avr-toolchain Installing Bellow you can find recommended simple one-line installer that pulls the newest docker-image and installs avr-toolchain script into “/usr/bin/” directory. curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lpodkalicki/avr-toolchain-docker/master/install.sh | bash -s — Getting started Install toolchain using … Read more

How to make ATtiny13 running at 128 kHz clock source

The ATtiny13’s default clock source setting is the Internal RC Oscillator running at 9.6MHz with clock divider /8 (fuses L=0x6A and H=0xFF; see fuse calculator). This short article explains how to downclock the ATtiny13 by swtiching to Internal RC Oscillator running at 128kHz without clock divider (fuses L=0x7B and H=0xFF) and still have a control to program AVR … Read more

How to update AVR USBasp firmware to latest version

The common reason why you would like to update this firmware is unlock slow-sck function for cheap (e-bay or Aliexpress) USBasp programmers, like this one on the picture. The slow-sck function allows to program AVR chips running at very low frequency clock source (i.e. 128kHz). When your USBasp programmer prints that warning it means that firmware update is … Read more

How to compile and burn the code to AVR chip on Linux/MacOSX/Windows ?

This is a quick tutorial for beginners that aims to show how to install tools, compile the code with avr-gcc and send it to the MCU with avrdude. It also introduce basics of automation of this task by putting the all instructions into Makefile. The example files (main.c, main.bin, main.hex, Makefile) has been packaged as … Read more