AVR microcontrollers family is one of the most popular MCU series in history of electronics. These 8-bit processors are low cost and easy to use, but probably the most important advance of AVRs is ability to program using simple and low cost hardware interfaces. AVR microcontrollers are still in under development – new devices are released from time to time, older ones are successively replaced by newer models with pin-to-pin compatibility and better performance or lower power consumption. One of the proves of these processors popularity is that famous Arduino family of development boards is based mainly on various AVR microcontrollers. It is really hard to find a professional embedded developer who didn’t start with AVR. Due to low price, simple instruction set and good availability of evaluation boards, programming interfaces and IDEs (integrated development environments) most of microcontroller programming courses at schools and universities, as well as online tutorials, is based on AVR family. If you are beginner, in our store you will find many hardware tools for AVR development that will accelerate your learning curve.
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Trinket - Mini Microcontroller module - 5V - Adafruit 1501
Miniature module with an AVR Attiny85 microcontroller and is equipped with 8 KB of Flash memory, 5 digital pins, analog input and 2 PWM channels. On board is microUSB...
Index: ADA-02626
Index: ADA-02626
AVR Programming Board is designed for programming microcontrollers from the Atmel AVR family in cased: DIP8, DIP20, DIP28, DIP40.
Index: MOD-01357
Index: MOD-01357
AVR microcontroller - ATmega32A-AU SMD
Popular microcontroller AVR from ATmel in a case soldered on surface (SMD).
Index: UCC-00160
Index: UCC-00160
Programmer AVR compatible with USBasp ISP + IDC tape - black
The programmer AVR USBasp is fully compatible with the programmer to "USBasp" created by Thomas Fischl. It can be used to program microcontrollers of the ATMEL AVR family via...
Index: MOD-10793
Index: MOD-10793
Programmer AVR compatible with USBasp ISP + IDC tape - red
The programmer AVR USBasp is fully compatible with the programmer to "USBasp" created by Thomas Fischl. It can be used to program microcontrollers of the ATMEL AVR family via...
Index: MOD-10791
Index: MOD-10791
Pro Trinket - ATmega328 module - 5V 16MHz - Adafruit 2000
Module with AVR ATmega328 microcontroller is equipped with 28 KB of Flash memory, 18 digital pins, analog inputs and 8 PWM channels. On board is a microUSB connector, thanks to...
Index: ADA-03005
Index: ADA-03005
Trinket - Attiny85 Mini Microcontroller - 3,3V - Adafruit 1500
Miniature module with an AVR Attiny85 microcontroller and is equipped with 8 KB of Flash memory, 5 digital pins, analog input and 2 PWM channels. On board is miniUSB connector,...
Index: ADA-02625
Index: ADA-02625
Programmer USB AVR Pololu v2.1 - microUSB 3,3V/5V - Pololu 3172
Pololu programmer compatible with with the popular STK500. It can be used to program AVR microcontrollers via the microUSB cable. Version 2 is equipped with two connectors...
Index: PLL-11452
Index: PLL-11452
ATmega328 mini module - microBOARD-M328
Module microBOARD-M328 is a mini development set with microcontroller ATmega328P used in popular Arduino Uno modules.
Index: MOD-02029
Index: MOD-02029
AVR 2 programmer compatible with USBasp ISP
Programmer AVR USBasp 2 is fully compatible with the USBasp programmer. It can be used to program microcontrollers from the AVR family via the USB port. Version 2 has two...
Index: MOD-01317
Index: MOD-01317
Programmer AVR compatible with USBasp ISP + IDC tape - green
The programmer AVR USBasp is fully compatible with the programmer to "USBasp" created by Thomas Fischl. It can be used to program microcontrollers of the ATMEL AVR family via...
Index: MOD-10826
Index: MOD-10826
Programmer AVR compatible with USBasp ISP + IDC tape - orange
The programmer AVR USBasp is fully compatible with the programmer to "USBasp" created by Thomas Fischl. It can be used to program microcontrollers of the ATMEL AVR family via...
Index: MOD-10795
Index: MOD-10795
Pro Trinket - Microcontroler module - 3,3V 12MHz - Adafruit 2010
ATmega328 AVR microcontroller module equipped with 28 kb flash memory, 18 digital pins, analog inputs and 8 PWM channels. On the board there is a microUSB connector, thanks to...
Index: ADA-02782
Index: ADA-02782
Feather M0 + radio module 433 MHz RFM96 LoRa - compatible with Arduino - Adafruit 3179
A small module with a 32-bit microcontroller ARM Cortex M0 ATSAMD21G18 known from Arduino Zero and the radio module RFM96 433 MHz of long range (LoRa). Feather is designed for...
Index: ADA-06567
Index: ADA-06567
Feather 32u4 Basic Proto - compatible with Arduino - Adafruit 2771
A small module with a microcontroller AVR Atmega 32u4 known from the Arduino Leonardo. Feather is designed for portable projects. On board is also a microUSB connector, through...
Index: ADA-05059
Index: ADA-05059
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GEMMA - miniature platform with a microcontroller Attiny85 3,3 V - Adafruit 1222
Miniature, round module with AVR Attiny85 microcontroller has an 8 KB Flash memory, 3 digital pins, analog input and 2 channels of PWM. On board is miniUSB connector, through...
Index: ADA-03017
Index: ADA-03017
FeatherWing datalogger - RTC PCF8523 + microSD Shield for Feather - Adafruit 2922
The module is powered via battery and with the real-time clock RTC PCF8523 and a slot for microSD memory cards. FeatherWing extends the capabilities of the modules from Feather...
Index: ADA-05591
Index: ADA-05591
Feather M0 datadalogger with microSD card reader - compatible with Arduino - Adafruit 2796
A small module with a microcontroller ATSAMD21G18 ARM Cortex M0 known from Arduino M0. Feather is designed for portable projects. On board is a connector microUSB, through...
Index: ADA-06568
Index: ADA-06568
Feather Bluefruit LE 4.1 32u4 - compatible with Arduino - Adafruit 2829
A small module with a microcontroller AVR Atmega 32u4 known from the Arduino Leonardo known from Bluetooth BLE 4.1. Feather is designed for portable projects. On board is also...
Index: ADA-06566
Index: ADA-06566
Feather M0 Bluefruit LE 4.1 - compatible with Arduino - Adafruit 2995
A small module with a microcontroller with ARM Cortex M0 known from the Arduino Zero with built-in Bluetooth 4.1 BLE. Feather is designed for portable projects. On board is a...
Index: ADA-06572
Index: ADA-06572
Proto Feather M0 32-bit - compatible with Arduino - Adafruit 2772
A small module with 32-bit ATSAMD21G18 ARM Cortex M0 microcontroller known from Arduino Zero. Feather is dedicated to portable projects. There is a microUSB connector on the...
Index: ADA-05296
Index: ADA-05296
Feather M0 Wi-Fi 32-bit + PCB antenna - compatible with Arduino - Adafruit 3010
A small module with a 32-bit microcontroller ARM Cortex M0 ATSAMD21G18 known from Arduino Zero and with wi-fi ATWINC1500 module. Feather is designed for portable projects. On...
Index: ADA-05590
Index: ADA-05590
32u4 Feather Adalogger with microSD card reader, compatible with Arduino - Adafruit 2795
A small module with a microcontroller AVR Atmega 32u4 known from the Arduino Leonardo. Feather is designed for portable projects. On board is also a microUSB connector, through...
Index: ADA-05414
Index: ADA-05414
FeatherWing Terminal Block - screw - shield for Feather - Adafruit 2926
Module that provides leading out of the pins of the Adafruit Feather boards on the screw connection. The board also includes a switch, left on the board place is to create your...
Index: ADA-05971
Index: ADA-05971
AVR microcontrollers – why should I use them?
The first reason to learn AVR programming is a great availability of hardware tools – development boards, modules as well as hardware programming interfaces with USB port. Beside powerful and sophisticated JTAG programmers AVR microcontrollers can be also programmed by one of many simple, but really reliable ISP programmers. AVR microcontrollers can be used with various software development environments, mainly under open source license. AVR Studio is one of most advanced and powerful software for AVR development, but there is also a lot of other options, depending on what operating system you use and what are your design needs or preferences. Many developers use open source toolchain (including linker and cross-compiler) with Eclipse IDE – this solution is incredibly flexible due to wide range Eclipse’s plug-ins and huge support by internet forums and tutorials. The next reason is simple instruction set (assembly language implementation) and high quality of manufacturer’s documentation – it seriously ease learning of low-level software development. If you don’t want to use assembly language, you can of course write your programs in higher-level languages like C, BASIC or even Python. There is also a lot of free libraries for various integrated circuits, displays and modules available on the market.
Hardware programers for AVR MCU
In our store you can find a lot of hardware programming interfaces falling into two groups. USBasp is a simple, but reliable programmer designed by Thomas Fischl and published as an open project on his site. There are different versions of this design, some of them have built-in USB B port, other are equipped with on-board USB A plug, so there is no need to use an external USB cable. Most of AVR programmers use 10-pin IDC connector compatbile with ISP KANDA standard pinout. AVR ProgUSB MKII ECO is a low cost, high quality AVR programmer providing driver compatibility with famous AVRISP-MKII interface. There is also another standard of hardware interfaces for AVR microcontrollers – STK500. In out store you can find Pololu’s version of this programmer - it’s much cheaper than original and provides 100% compatibility. If you don’t know which programmer will fit your needs, please check your IDE specs, because there are some differences in hardware compatibility, for example between AVR Studio and Eclipse-based IDE.
Evaluation boards and modules for AVR microcontrollers
If you want to learn AVR programming, you can also find here a plenty of evaluation modules and starter kits that allow you to easily start learning and testing your design ideas. Great choose for beginners is a development kit EvB 5.1 based on 40-pin ATMega32 microcontroller. On the board you can also find 2x16-chars LCD with blue backlight, 4-digit 7-segment LED display, a set of micro switches, digital temperature sensor with 1-Wire interface, RS485 serial bus converter, infrared receiver, EEPROM memory, LED indicators and a lot of pinheaders for interconnection of the peripherals with GPIO lines of the AVR processor. If you are a robotics enthusiast, you should check our offer of educational mobile robots from Pololu – for example, the m3pi robot allows you to develop your own programs using popular Arduino IDE and provides easy switch to more powerful 32-bit ARM processor thanks to built-in slot on the top board of the robot. In our store you can also find useful modules based on AVR microcontrollers, for example Trinket – a tiny evaluation module (only 31 x 15,5 x 5 mm!) equipped with ATtiny85 mircocontroller, mini USB connector, reset switch and power supply circuitry.