The Ubuntu Linux distribution has been ported to the cheapest and most portable platform yet: An Atmel ATmega microcontroller. Boasting a 20MHz 8-bit AVR processor, 128KB of flash storage and a ...

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 – ...

Today you might choose run Windows, Linux, MacOS or some other OS on your computer. Back in the 1980s however, you generally had little choice: a certain home computer came with a certain OS, and that ...

Yes, our own “breadboard compatible” 5VDC power supply is now ready for use! What is next? Next thing is the setting up of a simplest Atmega Development Board. There are many places where you can ...