AVR Programming: Learning to Write Software for Hardware (Make: Technology on Your Time) 1st Edition

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Atmel's AVR microcontrollers are the chips that power Arduino, and are the go-to chip for many hobbyist and hardware hacking projects. In this book you'll set aside the layers of abstraction provided by the Arduino environment and learn how to program AVR microcontrollers directly. In doing so, you'll get closer to the chip and you'll be able to squeeze more power and features out of it.

Each chapter of this book is centered around projects that incorporate that particular microcontroller topic. Each project includes schematics, code, and illustrations of a working project.

Program a range of AVR chips
Extend and re-use other people’s code and circuits
Interface with USB, I2C, and SPI peripheral devices
Learn to access the full range of power and speed of the microcontroller
Build projects including Cylon Eyes, a Square-Wave Organ, an AM Radio, a Passive Light-Sensor Alarm, Temperature Logger, and more
Understand what's happening behind the scenes even when using the Arduino IDE

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	Make: Getting Started with Arduino 3rd edition	Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets	Making Things Talk, Third Edition	Make: AVR Programming
Tutorials	8	8	16	25+
Intro projects	2	2	5	8
Robotic projects		2	1
Wi-Fi/Ethernet projects			8
Bluetooth projects		1	4
Sensors used	Switch, photoresistor, temperature, humidity	Switch, ultrasonic distance	Switch, flex resistor, force-sensing resistor, photoresistor, accelerometer, phototransistor, gas sensor, voltage monitor, infrared distance sensor, ultrasonic distance, GPS, digital compass, webcam, RFID, temperature	Switch, capacitive, photoresistor, piezo, temperature
Programming languages used	Arduino, Processing	Arduino, Processing, Java, Python	Arduino, Processing, PHP	C, Python
Other highlights	Designed for beginners	Teaches how to reuse and repurpose materials for building robots	X10, MIDI, XBee, web programming	Lasers, audio/music output, radio transmission, interrupts, servo motors, stepper motors, EEPROM storage

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Elliot is a Ph.D. in Economics, a former government statistician, and a lifelong electronics hacker. He was among the founding members of HacDC, Washington DC's hackerspace, and served as president and vice president for three years. He now lives in Munich, Germany, where he works for an embedded hardware development firm that has, to date, exactly one employee (and CEO). This book came out of his experiences teaching AVR programming workshops at HacDC.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1449355781
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Make Community, LLC; 1st edition (March 4, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 474 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781449355784
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1449355784
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.81 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.95 x 9.25 inches

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Elliot is a Ph.D. in Economics, a former government statistician, and a lifelong electronics hacker. He was among the founding members of HacDC, Washington DC's hackerspace. He now lives in Munich, Germany where he works for an embedded hardware development firm which has to date exactly one employee (and CEO).

"Make: AVR Programming" is the first book he's written, and although it's thick enough to stun a charging rhino, he hopes it helps you on your path.

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D. Porrey

Great Book, Not for the Novice

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2018

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I have read the reviews on this book and have seen a variation of opinions. What seems to drive the rating is how well the reader’s expectation of the book matched the experience. I love this book and give it 5 stars because of how I use the book; my expectation and my experience was a match. Make sure you have the proper expectation and you will be happy with this book.

Let me start by saying it is my opinion that this book is not for the beginner. If you do not have programming experience, or you have not experimented with electronic circuits or you do not know C this book is not for you (yet). Start with a simple Arduino Uno, buy a kit and get a beginner’s books. I highly recommend books by Simon Monk.

I have been coding for 25 years and have been experimenting with electronics since I was eight. I am a hobbyist maker and have written many blogs. I have also written many libraries for a variety of devices and sensors.

I have come across the need to have a more finite control over the microcontroller and have more control of performance and timing. If you are familiar enough with the Arduino environment you know that it is suitable for 98% (I made that statistic up but think it is accurate) of the needs makers will come across. But I have come across devices that have such precise timing requirements that I needed to fine tune my code.

That’s where this book comes in. I read the datasheets for just about everything I buy. I love to understand every detail of every sensor and microcontroller. Sometimes you uncover “hidden secrets” that you exploit to make your solution exciting and fun. However, this book presents many useful facts about the AVR microcontrollers without the need to dig through the datasheet.

The book has given be a much better understanding of the AVR microcontroller as well as added some very useful tools to my bench to solve more complex problems and to write better libraries.

I recommend this book to anyone with a medium to advanced level of understanding of AVR programming using the Arduino environment. This book will take your understanding to a much deeper and more advanced level.

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Mike B.

Very good "next step" for Arduino users...or those who want to skip the Arduino and just use the AVR chips on their own.

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2017

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If you are past the beginner stages with Arduino and want to play closer to the hardware, or work with Atmel's AVR family chips stand-alone on a breadboard rather than in an Arduino, this is the book for you! Unlike another book I got for that purpose, this one is well written, easy to follow, and appears to have actually been written and edited by competent folks. I've found very few typos, and none that interfered with understanding. The concepts are well explained and presented in a rational order. This may be heavy going if you've never programmed a microcontroller, don't know what a register is, or aren't familiar with binary math or Boolean logic, but the book does explain these to an extent if you haven't run into them before. You'll want the AVR data sheet for reference too (free download, link in the book)...the book has the info required for the projects described, but being able to put that in context with the rest of the processor description is useful...especially if you want to try things not explicitly covered in the book.

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LittleRedRibbonTop Contributor: Sewing

Great subject PRIMER, ok shelf Reference.

Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2016

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I like this book but for different reasons then "omg it's so great"...

I like it because it provides a positive primer while not going to such detail that some theoretical person can read it nodding their head all the time.
As a Primer, I would award this 5 stars but as a shelf resource I would give this 3.5 (hence the 4 start rating. I have noticed that the wording is not well edited and thus you have to re-read and fact check certain paragraphs. The code relies on you knowing and understanding libraries well. If you do not, get ready for some homework (which lets face it, you are programming an AVR, you HAVE TO KNOW libraries. You will also be required to understand AVR register programming such as the book does not teach well. Reference datasheets for the chip you are using. Ex: [search for the Atmel 328P COMPLETE datasheet (not the summary) on google] Also,...The book is consistently inconsistent. The author even notes in a few places that this is done on purpose to force a reader into studying outside material. Google comes in handy here and it is not a deal breaker. Again, Elliot is pushing you to use the internet instead of spoon feeding you literally everything. If you have determination and staying power and know how to work through these types of books and speedbumps found there-in, then go get it. If you are looking for a primer that will introduce you to the lingo and various use subjects, go get it. If you expect this to be a single source reference, think again!

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Herc

This IS the book I was looking for!

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2021

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Very thorough, and from my perspective, a gentt introduction to AVR microcontrollers. I've been a software developer for a lot of years, and made my share of blinky lights with my kids using arduinos. However I wanted to take the next step and build some more serious project (smaller, more purpose built, and cheaper per unit, -- though not cheaper when accounting for my time though being able to spend quality time with my kids building gadgets is time we'll spent 😁). If you're looking at this as a hobby, I think working with arduinos first is a great choice, and when that leads to bigger dreams of building something a little more from scratch, this is a great book for that.

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Kimchi

Excellent for Beginners!!

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2016

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Great beginner book for those looking to learn how to program the AVR in C! Elliot has hidden some really great puns in the and keeps it as simple as possible. As for me I dream of the day when I can code my concept in C to AVR in an afternoon and get a working prototype ready for production. This book is a great introduction. But what must be said is most of what you will learn will be on your own pouring over the datasheet and thinking about it all. You will fail many many times. Take a break. Walk away and come back to it. Its like magic. It will gradually start to make sense and you will see patterns.

My biggest recommendation for you is to write notes and ideas in a notebook while you figure it out! Do it! Do it!

Rome was not built in a day without blood and tears. Neither wil your creations. Good luck!

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paul kirk

Extremely specialised context

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 6, 2021

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I was attracted to this book having been involved in electronics as a hobby and programming throughout my working years as a programmer and teacher. Elliot's style is engaging and the book is well written. However, I felt a bit let down by an impression that this was going to be a rewarding journey which I'd find relatively sraightforward, especially with a recent background of programming Arduino to control my Observatory robotics.

I perservered until chapter 5 - Serial I/O, where I quickly realised why a layer of abstraction such as Arduino is very useful. Much of the code you write will be reusable within and across projects, so immediately you start thinking 'Library'. But, you don't want to reinvent the wheel right? So you start looking for libraries....and find that Arduino core takes away so much of the really hard, mind blowing and tediously repetitive coding you get invlved in when you're this close to hardware.

Personally I think the book would be more useful to Arduino programmers (which is a selling point) if it blended the contexts of avr and Arduino and provided some contextual comparisons. It would also be a useful addition to present the basics of creating library functions.

Perhaps I'm just not a microcontroller hardware person after all. If you're a programmer and electronics hobbyist, convinced that spending huge amounts of your spare time dedictaed to making hardware work for you, is your cup of tea, this is a really good book for you. If on the other hand you want to be pretty productive from the word go, then a layer of abstraction with library functions is extremely useful, but not addressed in this book.

I think in a nutshell, I couldn't see the point of writing code for e.g. transmitChar, receiveChar etc , and making a library for it when others far more accomplished than I have done that already.

If you fancy a career in microcontroller related development and you have a solid background in programming and a reasonable level of electronics, this book is great.

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e j richardson

Brilliant book - highly recommended

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 19, 2017

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This is a fantastic book. I have been programming for business software applications for many years, but had never done any microcontroller programming or electronics. This book has opened up a whole new world, and I am now surrounded by flashing lights, horns, switches and buttons and really enjoying it. I have learned loads and am only half way through, but this is enough to have written a voltage meter and a basic pwm control application for a small electronics business. Each chapter guides you through the steps to build up a circuit for the project, and then goes through the code explaining how it is all working. The book is very well structured so you are not overloaded with information, just given what you need for each topic. I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs to learn how to program a microcontroller.

Bozza

Outstanding Book for Practical Fun with ATMEGA Microcontrollers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 13, 2018

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This is an outstanding book if you want to have practical fun with ATMega 168 microcontrollers and understand a little further "under the covers" than working with an Arduino (for example). It took me a little time to get my first burn of the microcontroller up and running, but fantastic, practical learning. Very, very pleased. Thank you.

Puneet

Extremely recommended

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2016

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This book is perfect for learners and hobbyists written in excellent easy to understand language.

I bought different books from other authors but found those rubbish then had to return coz not worth for the money that i spent to learn some electronics.

These books from MAKE or Makezine are worth to spend to learn something and also the author is too good. I recently bought their 4-5 books.

Extremely recommended.

Mr C Hatton

Superb book and easy to comprehend

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2019

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One of the most engaging books I have. I never really understood this at university. Had I had this book my career might have taken a different path.

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