You love to spend most of your free time reading all the blogs/websites? However, you find that the recently RSS reader has its downsides and you’re not satisfy with it? Well, would you want to overcome the matter by building a RSS reader that based on AVR Mega8? If so, then here is the solution…

To be honest, it’s a simple and easy to navigate tool, where is uses an AVR microcontroller that being connected to a computer via a serial cable. In this case, you can use the Dragon Rider 500 as a development board.

When you’re using the Dragon Rider, a little bit of creativity is needed to route the connections. Basically, port D can be easily connected directly to the LCD header. The USART is needed for the serial connection uses PD0 and PD1. By the way, you should know one fact here that Port B cannot be used, as PB6 and PB7 are in used for the external crystal.

In order to solve up the problem, you might have to plug in a ribbon cable into the headers for the LCD, Port B and Port D. You can use jumper wires to make the proper routes.

Last but not the least; remember to hook up voltage and ground to the LCD header accordingly!