CHAPTER 2

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Building Our AVR Test Bed

We’re going to call it our AVR test bed but really, it’s a lot of things rolled into one. It provides a means of trying out the project ideas in this book, it provides a way to upload your software into your AVR chip, and it gives you a place to try out your own ideas, based on this book’s projects, or the completely new ones you’re bound to have before long.

In this chapter we’ll look at the details of the test bed, tell you what you need to get to build it, and give you detailed instructions on how to build and test it. Testing a test bed, now, there’s a challenge!

Test Bed Details

The AVR test bed is really ...

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