Phoenard, all-in-one Arduino-compatible prototyping gadget

Coming off a recent victory in our AVR Hero Design Contest, Phoenard is an all-in-one, Arduino-compatible prototyping gadget.

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Atmel: Making Goes Mainstream at CES 2014

MAKE visited the Atmel booth to discuss what maker trends they've seen this year, and hear about what they've got planned for 2014.

Atmel and Arduino Inspiring the Maker Movement

Atmel - Atmel and Arduino Inspiring the Maker Movement

Bob Martin, Atmel MCU Applications Manager, discusses Atmel's unique relationship with Arduino, Maker Faire and the Maker Movement.

Atmel® has been inspiring the Maker Movement, also known as the maker culture, since 2005. Atmel microcontrollers (MCUs) have been powering almost every Arduino board on the market today. Our easy-to-use 8- and 32-bit MCUs are powering the worldwide Maker communities.

Atmel attributes the success of Arduino to its easy-to-use, free cross-platform toolchain, and its simple do-it-yourself packages with Atmel's MCUs. These factors helped initially steer the Arduino team to choose our AVR microcontrollers—and today, both our AVR® and ARM®-based MCUs.

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Atmel Software Framework (ASF)

The Atmel® Software Framework (ASF) is a MCU software library providing a large collection of embedded software for Atmel flash MCUs: megaAVR, AVR XMEGA, AVR UC3 and SAM devices, include the SAM3X used on Arduino Due.

• It simplifies the usage of microcontrollers, providing an abstraction to the hardware and high-value middlewares
• ASF is designed to be used for evaluation, prototyping, design and production phases
• ASF is integrated in the Atmel Studio IDE with a graphical user interface or available as standalone for GCC, IAR compilers
• ASF can be downloaded for free

Link:

• Atmel Software Framework
• ASF documentation
• Get Started