jokkebk
Junior Member level 1
I've been using the GNU toolchain for AVR programming, including the avrdude utility to flash the MCUs and set the fuses. A few months ago I started thinking if I could eliminate the command prompt from my workflow entirely, because I was mainly just running the same few commands again and again to upload .hex files and set fuses.
Windows-based, Linux-based and Mac-based GUIs for avrdude have been done almost a dozen times, so I chose a slightly different approach: A lightweight web server and a set of PHP scripts. This way, I could even attach the programmer to a headless Raspberry Pi unit and remote control it from any machine in the local network. I've just finished the first (very alpha) version of it.
The 0.1 version can already identify most 8-bit AVR chips and read their current fuse settings using avrdude, and display them for user in graphical format (toggle buttons and dropdowns, much like Engbedded AVR fuse calculator, but with the current values selected). The fuse settings can also be changed and written to the MCU. Here's a video demonstration of it:
https://youtu.be/Px-OlL4L9Os
There's still much to improve, but I'm interested in any ideas and feedback you guys might have. There's also a bit more information in my blog about it, which contains a short "planned features" list also:
https://codeandlife.com/2012/08/12/avrweb-0-1-alpha-released/
Windows-based, Linux-based and Mac-based GUIs for avrdude have been done almost a dozen times, so I chose a slightly different approach: A lightweight web server and a set of PHP scripts. This way, I could even attach the programmer to a headless Raspberry Pi unit and remote control it from any machine in the local network. I've just finished the first (very alpha) version of it.
The 0.1 version can already identify most 8-bit AVR chips and read their current fuse settings using avrdude, and display them for user in graphical format (toggle buttons and dropdowns, much like Engbedded AVR fuse calculator, but with the current values selected). The fuse settings can also be changed and written to the MCU. Here's a video demonstration of it:
https://youtu.be/Px-OlL4L9Os
There's still much to improve, but I'm interested in any ideas and feedback you guys might have. There's also a bit more information in my blog about it, which contains a short "planned features" list also:
https://codeandlife.com/2012/08/12/avrweb-0-1-alpha-released/
