Comments on: Looking for feedback on the AVR HV Rescue Shield

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:27:53 +0000

Thanks Kerry!

By: Kerry

Kerry — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:24:47 +0000

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the outstanding work! Your code worked nicely on an ATmega328p recently bricked during one of the uploading process (wouldn’t respond to ICSP programmer even with an external clock source).

Since I built my own, I chose to use a simple transistor to switch on/off the 12V source instead of using the step-up converter.

Keep up the good work!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:56:20 +0000

The only thing i wish this thing was able to do would be to rescue 8pin AVR’s. I dont use the 2313 chips, however i do use many atmega8, and many attiny85. It would be great if i could rescue the attiny85′s too!!!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:04:48 +0000

At present the Rescue Shield doesn’t support flash programming, but when I did the design, I purposely included all of the necessary signals so that it could be implemented later. As far as I know, no one has tried to do it yet, but it should be possible.

By: Syd

Syd — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:35:29 +0000

Just curious – can it program the chip in the regular way? It would be a nice addition to the shop if it could burn the fuses, then go on to program something – like a bootloader e.t.c…

By: Kiril

Kiril — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:02:34 +0000

The kit was a joy to assemble. The sketch worked as expected, used it to revive a bunch of Atmegas which I’d have otherwise thrown away.

Thankfully, I didn’t have to use it on other micros, but I was thinking it can be easily adapted to work on other footprints using adapters.