Now we have our Atmega8 with us, next we need a hardware commonly called as programmer to estabilish a communication between our PC and Atmega8. There are lots of programmer available in the market today. Some of the famous programmers are USBtiny, USBasp, Arduino etc, (Arduino can also be used as programmer). In my tutorial series, I am going to use USBasp programmer because it is cheap and easy to use. The link for usbasp is given below you can purchase from there.
Next we need to install the driver for this usbasp programmer. Down and install the driver from here.
Check whether your PC is detecting usbasp or not. I am using windows OS. Plug in your usbasp to the usb port of your PC and go to device manager and under universal serial bus, you should see "usbasp". If you are not getting usbasp, it means some files are missing in the driver. If you are facing a problem like you windows is not recognizing usbasp click here Download and install the software. After installation, open the software, plugin your usbasp to you PC, Select usbasp from the dropdown menu, Select driver and click install as shown below.
So, in this tutorial we have chosen usbasp as our programmer to make communication between our PC and Atmega8. In the next tutorial, we are going to make connection to Atmega8 and usbasp. Thankyou.
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