Chapter 20. Conclusion, Parting Words, and Encouragement
Learning AVR: The Missing Chapters
That was quite a lot of material! Surely there is nothing left to learn about working with the AVR microcontroller or any of its peripherals, right? Wrong!
By now you should have the base knowledge to read the datasheet or scour around the interwebs to find what you need. In that spirit, here is a list of all the topics that I didn’t have room for, but that I feel like you should know about anyway.
The Watchdog Timer
The watchdog system is a very slow timer that can be configured to run from 16 milliseconds all the way up to 8 seconds. It is special in that when it reaches the end of its time, it can fire an interrupt or reset the chip. Why would you want to ...
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