[MBAVR-4] Minimalist development board for Atmega16/Atmega32

Yet another quick how-to guide of making a minimalist development board for AVR. The MBAVR-4 development board is designed for megaAVR MCUs like Atmega16 and Atmega32. It is a 4th and last project in series of MBAVR family home-made boards in order to create an nice environment for rapid development. I did these all things … Read more

[MBAVR-3] Minimalist development board for ATmega8/ATmega88/ATmega168/ATmega328

This is another quick how-to guide of making a minimalist development board for AVR. This time is about MBAVR-3 development board designed for megaAVR MCUs like ATmega8, ATmega88, ATmega168 or ATmega328. It is a 3rd project in series of MBAVR familly home-made boards in order to create an nice environment for rapid development. I did … Read more

What is an AVR Microcontroller ?

The AVR is a modified Harvard architecture 8-bit RISC single-chip microcontroller. The AVR was developed by Atmel in 1996 and was one of the first microcontroller families to use on-chip flash memory for program storage. The AVR microcontoller is like a small computer – includes a CPU, some flash program memory, some SRAM and some … Read more