Description
Atmel’s AVR microcontrollers are the chips that power Arduino, and are the go-to chip for lots of hobbyist and hardware hacking projects. On this book you can set aside the layers of abstraction provided by the Arduino environment and learn to program AVR microcontrollers immediately. In doing so, you can get closer to the chip and you are able to squeeze more power and features out of it.
Each chapter of this book is centered around projects that incorporate that particular microcontroller topic. Each and every project includes schematics, code, and illustrations of a working project.
- Program a range of AVR chips
- Extend and re-use other people’s code and circuits
- Interface with USB, I2C, and SPI peripheral devices
- Learn to get right of entry to the full range of power and speed of the microcontroller
- Build projects including Cylon Eyes, a Square-Wave Organ, an AM Radio, a Passive Light-Sensor Alarm, Temperature Logger, and more
- Understand what’s happening at the back of the scenes even when the use of the Arduino IDE