AVR Tutorial

A Hobbyist's Guide to Hacking 8-Bit AVR Microcontrollers

Table of Contents

1. 1   Introduction
   1. 1.1   What Are AVR Microcontrollers?
   2. 1.2   What You Should Already Know
   3. 1.5   Tools and Equipment (Toys)
   4. 1.4   Software and Development Environment
   5. 1.3   Overview of Development Process
2. 2   Getting Started: Blinking an LED
   1. 2.1   List of Materials
   2. 2.2   Wiring The Circuit
   3. 2.3   Powering The Circuit
   4. 2.5   Compiling the C Program
   5. 2.4   The Blink LED Program
   6. 2.7   Programming the AVR Microcontroller
   7. 2.6   Connecting the AVR Programmer
   8. 2.8   Troubleshooting
3. 3   AVR C Programming Basics
   1. 3.1   AVR Registers
   2. 3.2   Bits and Bytes
   3. 3.3   Bitwise Operations
   4. 3.4   Clearing and Setting Bits
   5. 3.5   The Bit Value Macro _BV()