I'm from Belgium,and new here and also new in programming. Hi
and welcome I have a arduino to program To program Arduino You
have at least 2 approaches: - Use Arduino IDE and their C
Libraries, which are very handy, however somewhat restricted to
Arduino devices only. - Use Atmel Studio 6 IDE and their C
Libraries. This way gives You more flexibility later on if You
don't want to use Arduino as this approach works for all Atmel
microcontrollers Personally, I never had MCU (augmented board
like Arduino). What I did was bought ATmega48 microcontroller
for £3 and used Atmel Studio to program it. I didn't get all
ready made sockets/connections/pins (as You do with
Arduino/Axon/other MCUs), but to start learning all I needed was
prototyping board, few resistors, LEDs and caps to get
everything connected to my microcontroller. This way, I learnt
not only how to program microcontrollers, but also how to setup
all hardware. For useful AVRC tutorials try links in this post
--> http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum