Make: AVR Programming: Learning to Write Software for Hardware Elliot Williams
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated

When you When you want to write any substantial program, with functions you'd like to be able to use later on, good practice (or even complimentary practice) is to create modular pieces of code. So, what better way to learn about the PDP-11, and the history of C and Unix, than to build a simulator of the machine that started it all ? Using an Arduino to learn programming is like using MacDonalds to learn cooking; you get your meal, very fast, but you don't get the skills to cook yourself. May 8, 2013 - “Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Mar 9, 2012 - Some day I hope to do something with hardware worth writing about in its own right. Before going into practice, we have to learn a few essentials on the serial programming mode of the AVR family. Jan 23, 2014 - The second project was a hardware implementation of a 32bit ARM CPU running linux on an Atmel 128p. Jan 2, 2012 - I was very excited to get it because I have always wanted to learn about PIC microcontrollers. For now though I Not only could I learn about AVR programming, I've had an idea since about 2001 for a product that doesn't exist which is built around a digital clock. This interface works serially and needs three That makes it easy, and requires two additional lines between 2 the programmer and the AVR board. Sep 11, 2011 - Being able to specifically say which board you're using makes it a little easier to write code that will compile under many different hardware configurations. OK But, the upside of all of this is that I get to play with programming my clock tonight without having to order parts for a programmer board! I am going with C since I don't know how to accomplish even a relatively simple program in assembly language. Apr 3, 2014 - The ISP-Interface of the AVR-processor family. Since I am new to the ICSP pins and can easily get myself confused with the AVR's ISP pins, I made a small label with all the pin names and attached it to the programmer. This way I To write a program, you can either use assembly language or use C. In some ways, the way that microcontrollers are coded and used feels very batch oriented — write some code, compile it, load it onto the micro, wait quietly to see it it worked, rinse, repeat. All this is done by a build-in interface in the AVR chip, that enables you to write and read the content of the program flash and the built-in-EEPROM. Got the kit I had no idea how to actually program the chip.