ISP Bridge 5(Atmel ATtiny x8, ATmega x8)

Name: ISP Bridge 5(Atmel ATtiny x8, ATmega x8)
SKU: 5387
Price: 5.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5.00 (2 reviews)

(2 Reviews)

Easly program your ATtiny x8 and ATmega x8 family microcontrollers on a breadboard.

Designed by Ossicone Labs in United States of America

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Easly program your ATtiny x8 and ATmega x8 family microcontrollers on a breadboard.

What is it? An "ISP Bridge" is an adapter; it forms a bridge across a DIP Chip allowing easy programming of breadboarded Atmel's AVR microcontrollers. Why did you make it? I enjoy prototyping micros …

What is it?

An "ISP Bridge" is an adapter; it forms a bridge across a DIP Chip allowing easy programming of breadboarded Atmel's AVR microcontrollers.

Why did you make it?

I enjoy prototyping micros on breadboards, but a big problem when hooking up a programmer was having to deal with six individual wires connected to spread-out pins on the micro. When I joined a Makerspace I wanted to take my projects there, but wires would pull out in-transit. Moving programmers from project to project also took forever. The ISP Bridge solves all these problems.

What makes it special?

After coming up with the idea, I looked online and found a couple of similar attempts out of perfboard, but none were available to purchase. I used this as a good excuse to start learning KiCad and made 7 designs to program every DIP packaged AVR Atmel makes.

It has:

Silkscreened pin designations (ie PB3, XTAL1, VCC)
Silkscreened "most used" alternate pin functions (ie ADC1, TXD, MISO)
Gold or Silver text for pin functions that don't apply to all chips
Routed out sections of the board to not block access to breadboard holes
LED power indicator with a 1K resistor, pulls very little current
Button to reset the micro, comes in more handy than expected

Compatible with:

Atmel's

AT tiny 48
AT tiny 88
AT mega 8
AT mega 8A
AT mega 48
AT mega 48A
AT mega 48P
AT mega 48PA
AT mega 88
AT mega 88A
AT mega 88P
AT mega 88PA
AT mega 168
AT mega 168A
AT mega 168P
AT mega 168PA
AT mega 328
AT mega 328P (used on Arduino Uno)

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Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (5.00)

Documentation: (5.00)

Shipping: (5.00)

Communication: (5.00)

Randy | Jan. 24, 2017

Breadboard ISP programming done easy!

So I bought this "kit" for $5.00 + $1.50 to ship. In three short days, it arrives and I open it, expecting my bag of parts and a board. Just looking at the packaging I realized that there had been so much thought given to my $5 investment that I had to do a review to say thank you.

One of the problems with buying online is shipping. Notice how the shipping was only $1.50? I did. When the kit arrived, it was evident. It was just a small, flat, unpadded envelope shipped just regular old First Class mail at two ounces. Inside was the answer to the shipping. The parts were nested in a laser cut foam core board that allowed the envelope to go through the USPS machines without damage. First wow.

Unpacking the parts was as simple as peeling the tape off one side of the foam core. Now I'm looking at the parts and I'm confused. So now I guess I have to look at the documentation. I hadn't done this since I thought if I needed help on how to put this together, I'm in the wrong hobby. Everything explained and more. Second wow.

So it's all together and time to try it out. Of course it works. Even the orange LED. Third wow. Best $5 I ever spent online!

Response from Ossicone Labs | Jan. 25, 2017

Wow Randy, thank you for your glowing review. I'm glad to know the packaging method worked well and the unpacking, assembly, and use of this kit has been as easy as I tried to make it. Also, thank you for letting me know the assembly instructions are useful, even to a savvy hobbyist such as yourself.

P | June 10, 2016

Nicely done, great attention to the details.

First, let me say the laser cut package, out of recycled cardboard, had me smiling, I'll be reusing it.
I opted for the fully soldered version and don't regret it. To get the extra bit of length out of standard headers, so they'll get a good contact with the breadboard, the people at Ossicons Labs pressed the insulator so that 'just enough' of the board side lead would be soldered. One of the side effects of this is the soldered side has a nice smooth braille bump, nothing poking out of the solder joint. Nice work.