Getting into Arduino
An Atmel AVR ATMega8-16PU microcontroller [By DustyDingo – Public Domain](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arduino_avr_atmega8-1.jpg) Recently, I’ve discovered that which is known as Arduino. Basically, it is an open source, open hardware microcontroller. They give you the software and the hardware plans online and you can build your own. Of course, you can always buy a premade kit (which is…