2.  Down-to-earth  Minimum number of hurdles  Able to get started quickly

3.  Simple computer on a chip  CPU  Program memory  RAM  I/O  Variety of built-in features ▪ Oscillator ▪ Timer ▪ UART (Serial Communication) ▪ Etc.

4.  PIC  TI  Rabbit  Zilog  Parallax  Atmel AVR*  Arduino

5.  Controlling things in the real world  Cars  Home appliances  Calculators  And more!

6.  Robotics  POV  LED reader board  TV-B-Gone

8.  Atmel AVR attiny2313  2K bytes flash program memory  128 Bytes RAM

9.  Breadboard*  Wire*  LEDs*  Resistors  Solder  Protoboards  IC Socket  Switch  Power supply

10.  Wire snips  Wire strippers  Multimeter  Soldering iron

11.  Parallel port programmer  USB programmer  USBTiny

12.  Editor  Compiler  Programmer  WinAVR  AVR-gcc  AVRDude  Makefile configuration