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DIY STK505 replacement

The Atmel STK500 development board does support many but not all of Atmels AVR controllers. As an enhancement a STK505 unit was constructed by Atmel to support the ATtiny24/44/84 series of microcontrollers, which come in a 14-pin DIP package. Other plugin-boards for other pinouts have also been made, but since the STK500 itself is […]

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Do they know what they do?

LED driver

As you can read in my earlier posts I have become quite attached to the AVR microcontrollers from Atmel. We also use these microcontrollers in projects with our students at Uppsala University.

Probably one of the widest spread development tools for AVR controllers is the original STK500 starter kit from Atmel, which in principle […]

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Knight Rider is back

Now I am completely sold to AVR microcontrollers. ATMEL’s free software seamlessly interfaces to the also free AVR-GCC C compiler and it is really easy to get started with the AVR microcontrollers – both in assembler and in C.

Today I first rewrote yesterday’s assembler code into C in order to get the same […]

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Bugs with six and more legs

Today was the first really sunny day this spring in Uppsala. Reaching 25°C I spent a large part of the day on my balcony where I was visited by a special guest:

A rose chafer or cetonia aurata

This rose chafer was elected the insect of the year 2000 in Germany where […]

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