14th February 2010, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
This workshop introduces programming for AVR microcontrollers. It uses the ATmega328p found on Arduino boards, but works with straight AVR C and a bare microcontroller. It covers the basic information you need to get started, whether or not you’ve used Arduino or other microcontrollers previously.
Why would you want to learn AVR programming (instead of, say, using Arduino)? First, it should demystify what happens inside of the Arduino platform (which is really fairly simple). Second, it will give you the flexibility to use other microcontrollers, like the ATtiny series, which are smaller and cheaper than the ATmega328. Third, it will help you take full advantage of the microcontroller’s capabilities, which can be important when writing performance-critical applications.
people
David Mellis
David Cranor