2012-03-21: Our First Arduino Board

It arrived yesterday morning… I knew it was small, but having it in your hand is another story (and the facts the the project started here in Italy and that...

2012-06-09: My First Standalone ATmega328p

Writing small sketches and playing around with Arduino is funny, but I was curious about reducing the component numbers, the board size and skipping the bootloader to recover those precious...

2012-10-27: Bigger AVR MCU: ATmega1284P

Some weeks ago I received this little MCU: Compared to ATmega328P, this ATmega1284P is not really a “little MCU”, it’s big (and I’m not talking about the physical dimensions): Feature...

2013-09-12: Recompiling Optiboot

Once in a while I check the optiboot project and I’m glad to see it’s active. Today I saw version 5.0a had been released some weeks ago and so I...