We don’t know if this will come as a surprise to the regular Hackaday reader, but a whole bunch of Atmel microcontrollers have a very cool feature hidden away in their datasheets. Most of them – ...

One of Atmel’s smallest microcontrollers, the ATtiny, is among the most inexpensive and reliable chips around for small applications. It’s also one of the most popular. If you don’t need more than a ...

San Jose, CA — Atmel Corp.'s new tinyAVR flash microcontrollers family targets battery chargers, sensor end-points and low-end motor control applications. The ATtiny25/45/85 includes a temperature ...

As I did not realise that Arduino is a quick route to getting a stand-alone 8pin microcontroller – an Atmel ATtiny85 – to do something useful. You don’t get all of the functions and performance of an ...

A new project soon to be available via the Crowd Supply website has been unveiled this week in the form of the ATtiny Flasher, an open hardware flashing tool specifically designed for the Atmel ATtiny ...

San Jose, Calif. – Atmel Corporation touts their Atmel ATtiny4/5/9/10 family of microcontrollers (MCUs) as the world’s smallest flash AVR MCUs. They come in ultra-small 8-pad UDFN packages measuring ...

Mouser Electronics, Inc. is now stocking the ATtiny104 Xplained Nano from Atmel. Designed as an evaluation kit for Atmel’s recently launched ATtiny102 and ATtiny104 8-bit AVR microcontrollers, the ...