This article will help you to set up a low-cost development environment for programming and testing the ATtiny 85 MCU. The same principles apply to any other member of the ATtiny family that can run free of any external components. Parts List Component Supplier Price...

So you’ve read my blog post Setting up Eclipse for AVR projects and now you want to write some code but you’re somewhat bewildered by all the Eclipse options. Well not to worry, I’ll walk you through your first project step-by-step. We’ll go ahead and recreate the...

For many hobbyists the first AVR integrated development environment (IDE) that they will encounter will be the Arduino IDE. The Ardunio IDE goes out of its way to make it easy for you to quickly bash out test code and get it up and running as fast as possible without having to worry too much...