Umair Mukati

ULTI-ISP USB Programmer for AVR & 8051

The product ULTI-ISP is a project and a continuation based on the work of Thomas Fischl, Fabio Baltieri. The keen scope of this product is to combine the powers to program AVR and 8051 inside a small programming tool, which is now called as “ULTI-ISP” (ULTImate-In-System-Programmer). The product is made over the V-USB platform. The hardware is a pure work from Fabio Baltieri. He designed the hardware in such a way that you can even place it in your key-chain.

The ULTI-ISP can be used to program a wide range of AVR microcontrollers as well as 8051 series. The device can be used to read, write and erase flash memory, EEPROM, Fuse Bits. The product has two programming speed modes. It can be self-programmed by any other AVR Programmer or by another ULTI-ISP using 6pin IDC Cable. Another external header can be used to supply power to the target device.
The ULTI-ISP includes an on-board AVR ATMega8 which deals with all the USB transactions and provides the data to the target device needed to program it. A standard 6 pin IDC ISP cable can be used to program the target device. The two indicators are used to reflect the ULTI-ISP status, one is for power and another is for programming status.
The software “ProgISP” can be used to program the devices using ULTI-ISP tool. Finally, the whole project is open-source you can add up and implement your design over it, to further improve it.

New Products Arrival

Hi all dear visitors,

A good news is here, two more products have been added to the inventory ATMega32U4 BreakOutBoard (like a Leonardo with some modifications) and PICKIT2 Mini.

PICKIT2 clone's size is now greatly reduced and it is now a pocket sized device. From the previous version it does not facilitates 3.3V controller support but even with a small size it supports almost all of the controller supporting 5V range. The board mostly consists of SMD parts. It connects with the PC using USB mini-B cable.

As for ATMega32U4 BreakOut Board, if anyone of you really likes AVR Microcontrollers you have really missed a most common feature nowadays i.e. USB hardware module. ATMega32U4, gives support for a full-speed USB devices. And various attractive features are also available within this small SMD package like two 16-bit timers and high frequency timer based on clock source from PLL. The board is built on the same architecture as Arduino Leonardo, which can be the secondary feature of the board. With some modification we can now have a manual control over the source of power and addition of SPI based header. One simply needs to burn the Arduino Bootloader to it, before using it as an arduino device.

These products are in stock now, and can be ordered using contact page. Products page will be updates soon with image gallery. I think these new tools are really according to your needs and will flush off your ambitions related to size and technology.

Have a good day!

GPS Tracking Device

We often want to keep in track of such things which are much precious to us. For such things, we seek for any best possible means to secure it. These things can be car, truck, containers, and even our loved ones ;). This device was built to perform the particular task.

The main idea for this device is to keep it portable and handy, with the people in touch with the global location of this device and some other information achieved by interfacing sensors to this device. Although, we also intended to control things, using it. Let us suppose that your car has been stolen, so if you wish to, you can simply turn the car off, using any internet facility after covering some encryption.

We chose GSM based tracking system because its cheap and by using its GPRS connectivity we can either send the data with higher frequency, due to few number of bytes for information and for actuation. Its range its vast enough that it can work across the country wherever the GSM SIM’s vendor signal are available. The basic idea was to update the database on the server using this device. Therefore, it is another meaningful reason for using GSM for easy GPRS accession.

A GUI based application was equally necessary to provide a user the facility to easily track his device whenever he wishes too. The software can also plot the route between different time intervals.