But it is pretty-much all there on the ATMEL site if you dig around. As Kenneth mentions, it is a somewhat steep curve to get to grips with the Dragon. The problem with the Dragon is ATMEL’s documentation. When you use your Dragon with AVR Studio, it is automatically (at your choice) recognized and updated. The Dragon has huge advantages over the likes of the simple programmers sold to the “Maker” Community (not that the simple solutions are bad – they have their place): On board programming/test, off-board programming of targets with both ISP and high-voltage ISP (yes you can program fuses), JTAG, and On-Chip-Debug (OCD). If you buy a Dragon, to really use the power of the Dragon, you will need a bit more third-party hardware pieces to populate it – some 0.1 male and female headers, a 28-pin DIP socket, and a handful of short female-female header jumpers – all available online at very low cost (if they’re not already in your parts inventory). Again, use common-sense when connecting any programmer/debug dongles to your targets. Mine is the older version but I’ve never had a problem. Older versions of the Dragon were a bit more fragile, new Dragons are much better. Yes you can damage a Dragon if you don’t use common-sense connecting it. I’ve had mine for years and it has worked flawlessly. It is nice to see another person “graduate” to the Dragon.
I just like my Dragon, and it likes me :-) There’s a place for every type of programming/debug tool out there. I’m just stating my experience with the Dragon. I’m not trying to start a FLAME WAR here.
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