I started learning programming microcontrolers today. I already bricked one ATMega...

99 more to go

Loool

It's like what they say. You aren't a proper doctor unless you kill a patient 😉

Its pretty easy.
USE AN ARDUINO.

Physically broken or just the software?

Burned from too much programming or is it a faulty programmer that burned it?

How can you brick these things?

@PrivateGER wrong voltage, faulty programmer, placing it upside down (by the I mean instead of placing top of the controller in its place it is put on the opposite side)

@gitpush Oh.

@PrivateGER this is why I hate hardware programming, because on tiny mistake means you need to buy a new one instead of debug and re-run
But it is fun building stuff though

well Edison did blew up a lot of lightbulbs at first

@Torbuntu @JonnyCodewalker @marcom @gitpush @PrivateGER I messed with fuse bits and set them wrong, but my friend said he has programmer (somewhere...) that can unbrick it.

@World I need an atmega32 as it's for robotics club project.

@Torbuntu So 'soft bricked' is more approbate maybe? It's something with uC's internal configuration, frequency or some stuff, need programmer that will be able to force right bits to it as mine doesn't see it (signature is 0x00000000).

@Torbuntu And it's kinda beyond me as it's my first time being this close to the metal. I like low level programming but I didn't have the pleasure playing with hardware before. That's why I joined that club.

@Torbuntu I already ordered 3 more of them, only 3$ per one, so at least I won't starve because of programming. :D

@Torbuntu I'm using atmega32, got a task to write PID regulator, doensn't seem that hard for a beginning.

@Glamhoth if so, you need to get your self one of them it will be handy
Best of luck :)