If I want to take the ATMega out of the Arduino and use it seperately, do I need to include the 16mHz oscillator? The only precision I need is the millis() method for recording the time a sensor was triggered.

Does ATMega 328 require 16mHz oscillator?

system November 21, 2009, 5:52am 4

The Sparkfun crystal you have found will work but you have to add caps. I recently used crystal with built in caps to save some space.

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