AVR tutorial update:

Step 2 of AVR tutorial will make you familiar with the AVR regsiter set and some important information about these registers like how to use them, restrictions on the use of registers. Also we will talk about important tips that will help you programming your controller in later stages.
In this part we will also learn how to read and write from the I/O ports of AVR microcontroller. And finally the programming of AVR.
and writing your first program.

Lets start with the programming and writing our first program which is "hello world" of microcontrollers.. i.e. "Blinking an LED"

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