Down-to-earth Minimum number of hurdles Able to get started quickly
Simple computer on a chip CPU Program memory RAM I/O Variety of built-in features ▪ Oscillator ▪ Timer ▪ UART (Serial Communication) ▪ Etc.
PIC TI Rabbit Zilog Parallax Atmel AVR* Arduino
Controlling things in the real world Cars Home appliances Calculators And more!
Robotics POV LED reader board TV-B-Gone
Atmel AVR attiny2313 2K bytes flash program memory 128 Bytes RAM
Breadboard* Wire* LEDs* Resistors Solder Protoboards IC Socket Switch Power supply
Wire snips Wire strippers Multimeter Soldering iron
Parallel port programmer USB programmer USBTiny
Editor Compiler Programmer WinAVR AVR-gcc AVRDude Makefile configuration