This programmer is a compact solution for programming our Baby Orangutan robot controllers through a USB port. Our programmer incorporates a USB-to-serial adapter and emulates an AVR ISP programmer so that you can program your Orangutans with any software that can talk through a serial port to an AVR ISP, such as Atmel’s AVR Studio and AVRDUDE, which is included in the open-source WinAVR package. The unit also doubles as a USB-to-serial adapter (TX and RX only), allowing you to communicate with your Orangutan, or any other microcontroller, through a terminal program.

A USB A to Mini-B cable is required but not included. These types of cables are common for digital cameras and other USB peripherals, so you might already have the necessary cable. The 6-pin ISP programming cable (pictured to the right) is included. The older, 10-pin ISP connections are not directly supported.

Note: USB cable, Orangutan robot controller, and software are not included. The programmer should be able to program all AVRs that support paged program and EEPROM memory, but we can only support Orangutan programming at this time.