A year or two ago I purchased an Arduino kit on a whim from Fleabay, it arrived surprisingly quickly and not having touched hobby electronics for years (before the internet was invented, at least), I set about doing some experimenting. The kit consisted of a Chinese Duemilanove, breadboard, LCD Module and various leds, resistors, switches a potentiometer and an IR led, IR receiver and a dodgy hand-held IR remote.
I did all the experiments on Arduino.cc, that I had the bits for, built an IR device to trigger my Nikon D40, cloned the tv remote and annoyed my wife by switching the tv off :) and numerous other odds and sods. I even got it to control some RC servos and an ESC without blowing them to smithereens, quite good, I thought - but now I was bored...
The answer... I bought a pre-programmed ATMega328p chip, complete with 16mhz crystal, caps and the other bare minimum of components required to make a 'Breadboarduino' along with a shiny new breadboard and set out in search of more fun.
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