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Arduino

Arduino board
“Arduino-NG”-Board
Arduino board
Experimental “Arduino” Board

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. The microcontroller on the board is programmed using the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring) and the Arduino development environment (based on Processing).

See the official ”Arduino”-website for details[1].

My aim here is to document some solutions of details I found during my experiments. Please be aware that my Arduino experiments have been in 2006, so some information may be outdated.


Bootloader

STK500

The first difficulty when building your first microcontroller board is to burn a bootloader to the ATMEGA 8 or ATMEGA 168. Especially with the ATMEGA 168 it may cause a few problems burning the first bootloader.

I want to give a short overview to different ISP programmers I tested here:
Bootloader - a comparison of different programmers


Minimal Arduino

Arduino board

The original Arduino is nothing but an ATmega168 and a few extra components to connect to the PC.

continue…


References

DL1DOW German Amateur Radio Station