first µC project

Much depends on the nature of the project, on your background, and on
what supporting equipment and tools that you have access to.

Could you expand a little on what it is you're trying to do and what
experience you have?

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Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA

Yes, that's the big benefit of the Arduino platform: a very high first
project success rate. It can be a real fight (but fun!) to get a new
chip up and running. Absent something like the Arduino or the older
Basic Stamp, though, it's easy for a new user who is faced with several
hundred pages of registers, bits, and oh-by-the-ways to get discouraged.

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Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA

cool, thanks :-)