Hello, I'm new to the Arduino and had a newbie question I was hoping some of you could please answer. I notice that the pre-built Arduino boards use only a couple of the Atmega microcontrollers. Is there a reason for this? I'm a bit confused if these that are used have some special bootloader allow…

Arduino and the Atmega Microcontrollers?

CrossRoads March 16, 2012, 4:44pm 8

Lot of support for atmega1284 here in the forum, and for the atmega32U4 with built in USB interface (Leonardo and variations).

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