Being able to track down a bug in a mountain of source code is a skill in its own right, and it’s a hard skill to learn from a book or online tutorial. Besides the trial-by-fire of learning w… ...

As [Mic] often got requests to make high-power switching boards, he recently finally gave in and designed the one shown above based around a solid-state relay. Some of our readers that already play… ...

ATmega has some advantages over ATtiny, but mainly in capacity, not so much in features. Conversely, they're likely much easier to switch between than PIC16F and PIC18F<BR>7.