Summary

The Arduino software environment is a great place to start learning about microcontrollers, programming, and even hardware. To take it to the next level, you can add your own Arduino libraries and create your own Arduino cores for unsupported AVR devices.

Beyond that is a world of more powerful tools waiting for you. Both the AVR Studio and the Eclipse packages support more than just the eight-bit AVR world, so this could very well be your launching point into … who knows what? The sky is the limit. Newer and more powerful (but cheaper!) microcontrollers are being introduced all the time. Keeping up with them is a full-time job.

Let’s march forward and put this new information to good use. In the final chapter, you design and build a ...

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