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The AVR Watchdog
The AVR Watchdog is an essential mechanism to protect long term run applications from code freezes affecting their functionality.
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How to set the AVR Fusebits
Learn how to set your atmega to work with various external crystals, program the fusebits, and build a fusebit doctor to revive your AVRs, in case you wrote the wrong settings .
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BMP085 Barometric pressure sensor
The BMP085 is a compact, low power sensor for reading temperature, barometric pressure and altitude. See it in use with Atmel microprocessors.