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Hi guys i'm starting out in AVR and electronics in general, and one of
the problems i'm running into is picking a decent tutorial to learn
from. It seems there's 10000000 ways to skin a cat, but for learning
purposes I need to stick with one. many of the tut's on the web have
examples that don't compile or are out of date with avr gcc making
things a little painful.

I've conqured blinky and the fundamentals involved in that, now i'm
hungry for more, something that takes me as far as serial
communications , analog conversion and other inputs to the device.