jeremygaughan said:I've found a programmer that appears suited for my needs as a beginner, and have found a place that will burn my firmware. Now I just want to find out a few things... What are the opinions of the people out there who are using it, if any. Also, I have been googling a lot and haven't yet found out how to determine which type of capacitors are being used by looking at the schematic.
jeremygaughan said:Disc caps that are a little shinny and fatter are generally tantalium.
I believe the shiny cap is the non-polarized 100nF cap. Tantalum caps are polarized which means it is more than likely a Monolithic Multilayer Ceramic and not the suggested Tantalum. These generally come in blue and orange (that I know of).
Has anyone worked out why the schematic at www.ali3nworld.blogspot.com has an extra 100uF polarized cap in parallel with the 100nF? This is the only schematic I have found that diverges from the original.