gnuProload - an official introduction
It has been quite some time (more than year) since I created my gnuProload software to program AT89S52 microcontrollers over Linux after reverse engineering an existing software which ran only on windows. But a few months ago, I enhanced that software to enable it to program even Dallas DS5000T microcontrollers.
If you want to know how gnuProload itself came into being, please read this post first. It is quite interesting, in case you are passionate about software in general and open source in particular. It tells the story of how I refused to walk into the trap of closed source software and how I was forced to reverse engineer a piece of software which ran only on windows (prior to my reverse engineering) ;-). In case you are wondering, the name of that post is derived from the critically acclaimed movie by Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove ;-).
Ok, let’s not digress. What happened was that sometime around August, this year, I was contacted by a fellow from Brazil who visits various universities giving lectures on embedded development on Linux etc. So he wanted to present my software in one of his talks. I was flattered, naturally :-). So I went ahead and created a set of slides for him to present it in his talks. In this post, I am just providing those same slides for you to go through. I hope these bunch of slides will give you more information rather than my original post about gnuProload.
So here it is, download and enjoy! Oh and by the way, you would need OpenOffice.org to view these slides. And if you are too lazy to download it, here is a PDF copy of it ;-).
Enjoy! As usual, don’t hesitate to put in your comments. Have a nice day!
~Seemanta
thanks for the software!