1. An Introduction to Microcontroller Programming for the Hobbyist

2. Purpose—For the Hobbyist • Down-to-earth • Minimum number of hurdles • Able to get started quickly

3. What is a Microcontroller? • Simple computer on a chip • CPU • Program memory • RAM • I/O • Variety of built-in features • Oscillator • Timer • UART (Serial Communication) • Etc.

4. Many Brands/Platforms • PIC • TI • Rabbit • Zilog • Parallax • Atmel AVR* • Arduino

5. What is it good for? • Controlling things in the real world • Cars • Home appliances • Calculators • And more!

6. Hobby Projects—Demo Time! • Robotics • POV • LED reader board • TV-B-Gone

7. Getting Started

8. The Chip • Atmel AVR attiny2313 • 2K bytes flash program memory • 128 Bytes RAM

9. Other Hardware • Breadboard* • Wire* • LEDs* • Resistors • Solder • Protoboards • IC Socket • Switch • Power supply

10. Tools • Wire snips • Wire strippers • Multimeter • Soldering iron

11. Programmer • Parallel port programmer • USB programmer • USBTiny

12. Software • Editor • Compiler • Programmer • WinAVR • AVR-gcc • AVRDude • Makefile configuration

13. Programming!