In the last installment of our tutorial series we built a simple circuit on a breadboard and programmed an ATmega168 to make it run. That proves that you know how to follow directions, but the eureka ...

A Direct AVR Parallel Access, or DAPA cable, is an incredibly simple and cheap programming method. You can build one very quickly for a few bucks worth of parts, but the convenience comes with a few ...

SEBASTOPOL, CA(Marketwired - Mar 6, 2014) - If you've been designing with Arduino and love it, you're ready to love the hardware that improves performance and increases your design options. Atmel's ...

Not just for nerds, anyone with an interest in electronics, computers, or engineering can build a circuit to blink an LED or read a temperature sensor. The NerdKit will walk you through building the ...

The project is based on one of the smaller size chips, the Atmel ATtiny2313 chip, which will be used to build up a complete toolchain consisting of compiler, programmer hardware and software, and some ...

I've been interested in getting into microcontroller programming lately, and I've been looking at Microchips PIC16F and PIC18F series (especially the PIC16F), and also Atmel's ATtiny and ATmega series ...

the industry's most comprehensive low-cost development tool. Setting a new standard for low-cost debugging tools With the AVR Dragon, Atmel has set a new standard for low-cost development tools. The ...

-- AVR Dragon Provides On-Chip Debugging and Programming at Only US$49 Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the AVR Dragon(TM) development tool for AVR(R) microcontrollers. By providing ...

This low-cost project aims to develop an open-source AVR USBtinyISP programmer with SPI interface that is built around the ATtiny2313 AVR microcontroller. The project has been tested with the ...