As a result, this project is set up as a how-to for others looking to dive further into the world of microcontrollers that don’t have the same hand-holding setup as the Arduino. To take care of ...

Advanced microcontroller users typically write their programs in C, then compile the finished script to a hex (hexadecimal) format. Finally, using a serial cable and AVR (or similar) programming ...

For beginners learning to program Arduinos, a web-based, fully networked developer environment called Codebender could drastically reduce the learning curve.