Imponator bootloader

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Programming the imponator

You're imponator is shipped with a bootloader. This implies that you can program your imponator with you own code without some sort of development kit. The only thing you need to be able to program the imponator yourself is a RS232 serial port. Since these ports are not commonly available in modern computers, you usually have to buy a USB-RS232 cable. These are however quite common and cheap, in comparsion to a developer kit of some kind.

How to develop software for the avr

This if a huge topic and it's completely out of scope of this article to explain in detail how to do this. However, some pointers as to where you can get more information on this is given.

First of all, check out the AVR-tutorials written on this wiki. Most of them are written for the Atmega 168(which is the one used in the imponator), and some of them are actually ready to be programmed right into the Imponator withouth any modifications whatsoever.