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AVR GCC Toolchain – Setup for Windows

2022-04-112022-01-02 by Tinusaur

We decided to write a guide on how to install and setup the AVR GCC Toolchain manually. Back in 2014, we wrote WinAVR Setup Guide which became quite popular on our website. Unfortunately, WinAVR has not been updated since 2010. AVR GCC Toolchain is a collection of tools and libraries used to compile your code for the AVR microcontrollers. This collection includes a compiler, assembler, linker, and some libraries. Most of the tools are based on efforts from the GNU community (GCC stands for GNU Compiler Collection), and some others are developed by Microchip.

How to use Tinusaur boards in an Arduino environment?

2021-03-212021-01-11 by Neven Boyanov

Did you know that Tinusaur boards can also be programmed using the Arduino development environment? To be able to do this, however, you need to add some settings into the Arduino IDE, and to make the process easier, we wrote a short guide. The Tinusaur boards are based on the ATtiny85 microcontroller, so that guide … Learn more …

WinAVR – Setup Guide

2022-01-012014-06-24 by Tinusaur

UPDATE: 2022 WINAVR is (or was) a great project. Its most “recent” package is from 2010-01-20. In other words, it is outdated. There are many projects that attempted to replace it but none of them (AFAIK) is extremely popular. We’ve put together a very detailed guide on how to setup everything manually – AVR GCC … Learn more …