Basics

• Breadboards – 101
• Board Stacking – 101
• 5 Ways to power an AVR 28 pin board

AVR Microcontrollers

• Atmega8 breadboard circuit – Part 1 of 3 – Power supply
• Atmega8 breadboard circuit – Part 2 of 3 – The Microcontroller
• Atmega8 breadboard circuit – Part 3 of 3 – The Firmware
• Introduction to I/O Registers
• Analogue to Digital Conversion on an ATmega168
• Analogue to Digital Conversion Interrupts on an ATmega168A
• External Interrupts on an ATmega168
• Timer interrupts on an ATmega168
• ATmega168A Pulse Width Modulation – PWM
• AVR Memory Architecture
• Reading and writing Atmega168 EEPROM
• AVR Eclipse Environment on Windows

Input/Output devices

• Driving a 7 segment display with a 4511 BCD to 7 Segment Driver
• Introduction to 74HC595 shift register – Controlling 16 LEDs
• Character LCD Displays – Part 1
• Character LCD Displays – Part 2
• Debouncing a switch

Projects

• Severed hand in a jar Halloween display