Ars Technica

PIC vs AVR (ATtiny, ATmega, etc.)

I've been interested in getting into microcontroller programming lately, and I've been looking at Microchips PIC16F and PIC18F series (especially the PIC16F), and also Atmel's ATtiny and ATmega series ...
Bit-Tech

Linux ported to Atmel's ATmega microcontrollers

The Ubuntu Linux distribution has been ported to the cheapest and most portable platform yet: An Atmel ATmega microcontroller. Boasting a 20MHz 8-bit AVR processor, 128KB of flash storage and a ...
Hackaday

Squeezing Every Bit From An ATMega

While the ATMega328 is “mega” for a microcontroller, it’s still a fairly limited platform. It has plenty of I/O and working memory for most tasks, but this Battleship game that [thorlancaster328] has ...
EDN

Atmel ATmega48P, ATmega88P, ATmega168P, ATmega328P: AVR microcontrollers reduce power consumption in sleep modes

Joining the vendor’s 32-pin picoPower AVR microcontroller family, the ATmega48P, ATmega88P, ATmega168P, and ATmega328P devices have 4, 8, 16, and 32 kbytes of flash memory, respectively, providing a ...
Electronics Weekly

Building an Arduino lie detector test

This one caught my eye - an Arduino-based lie detector that can measure the skin's response to a question. At the heart of this project is an Arduino Nano, based on the Atmel ATmega328 (for the Nano 3 ...
EDN

Build Your Own Arduino & Bootload an ATmega Microcontroller – part 1

There are many reasons to build your own Arduino circuit on a protoboard or a custom-designed printed circuit board. At the heart of the Arduino platform is an AVR microcontroller, in usual way you ...