Build more than 55 hands-on, wide-ranging projects with the popular and versatile AVR family of microcontrollers.

AVR Workshop is a comprehensive introduction to working with the Microchip AVR 8-bit family of microcontrollers – made famous through their use in Arduino and other compatible boards. Whether you’re an absolute beginner or longtime electronics enthusiast, this book gives you the latest coding and hardware knowledge required to build over 55 projects. After the author guides you through the basic C programming skills you need to work directly with ATmega328P-PU and ATtiny85 microcontrollers, your operation will be up and running. You’ll go from building blinking LEDs and handling various types of user input, to creating real-time clocks, digital thermometers, and even controlling small motorized devices.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Chapter 2: First Steps

Chapter 3: Getting and Displaying Input

Chapter 4: Communicating with the Outside World using the USART

Chapter 5: Taking Control with Hardware Interrupts

Chapter 6: Using Hardware Timers

Chapter 7: Using Pulse-Width Modulation

Chapter 8: Controlling Motors with Mosfets

Chapter 9: Using the Internal EEPROM

Chapter 10: Writing Your Own AVR Libraries

Chapter 11: AVR and the SPI Bus

Chapter 12: AVR and the 12C Bus

Chapter 13: AVR and Character Liquid Crystal Displays

Chapter 14: Controlling SeNos

About the Author

John Boxall has been an electronics enthusiast for over thirty years, spending much of that time in the electronics retail, wholesale, and consulting fields. He also spent several years writing Arduino tutorials, projects, and reviews of kits and accessories for tronixstuff. Arduino Workshop was his first book.