I've been interested in getting into microcontroller programming lately, and I've been looking at Microchips PIC16F and PIC18F series (especially the PIC16F), and also Atmel's ATtiny and ATmega series ...

We don’t know if this will come as a surprise to the regular Hackaday reader, but a whole bunch of Atmel microcontrollers have a very cool feature hidden away in their datasheets. Most of them – ...

LONDON Atomthreads is an open source RTOS developed in the UK and its first release contains a port to the Atmel AVR architecture. The developer Kelvin Lawson, who is a professional embedded systems ...