User`s guide

As a first step, we recommend you try to program your Orangutan with a simple program that blinks the red user

LED on pin PD1. Download the file below that corresponds to your particular Orangutan SVP model:

• Orangutan SVP-324: BlinkLED_m324.zip [http://www.pololu.com/file/download/

BlinkLED_m324.zip?file_id=0J235] (7k zip)

• Orangutan SVP-1284: BlinkLED_m1284p.zip [http://www.pololu.com/file/download/

BlinkLED_m1284.zip?file_id=0J326] (8k zip)

Open the AVR Studio Project by double clicking on BlinkLED.aps. Connect your Orangutan SVP to USB. In

the Tools menu, select Program AVR > Connect…. Select the AVRISP platform. Select the COM port of the

“Pololu Orangutan SVP Programmer” port as seen in your Device Manager in the “Ports (COM & LPT)” list.

Since AVR Studio only supports connecting to COM1 through COM9, you may need to change your port number

in the device manager. Click the Connect… button. If AVR Studio successfully connects to the Orangutan SVP’s

programmer, it should bring up an STK500 dialog box. Under the Main tab of this new dialog box, select

ATmega324PA or ATmega1284P depending on which SVP model you have. In the Flash section of the Program

tab, navigate to the project’s hex file (which is created in the default directory when you build the project).

Make sure that the Orangutan SVP’s AVR is powered (the blue LED must be on). Now click the Program flash

button. If everything has worked correctly, you should see the Orangutan’s red user LED blinking around once

per second.

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