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+Workshop Proposal for Pd con 2011 in Weimar
+ATMEL AVR workshop
+Instructor: Chikashi Miyama
+Why AVR ?
+Arduino is nowadays almost the de-facto standard. Many electronic instrument builders and installation
+artists employ it for there works. It is easy to use and helpful for prototyping. However, if you want to make
+copies of your work or if you plan to create a large work involving many micro-controllers.  Arduino is
+probably not the best choice; it is too expensive and sometimes takes too much space in your hardware /
+installations.
+Arduino consists of several parts. a USB socket, a crystal, a
+regulator, an ISP socket, a USB-serial chip, several capacitors,
+and ATMEL AVR Micro controller ATMega328PU.  The Arduino
+UNO board costs around 34$.  What do you think is the most
+expensive component on this board?  It is obviously the micro
+controller. However, it actually costs around 3 - 4$.
+Though Arduino facilitates many things by offering USB slot and
+power jack, these connectors are not necessary for all projects.
+Furthermore, Arduino conceals many potentials of ATMEL AVR
+chip. For example, you can actually use faster crystals than 16
+Mhz (up to 20Mhz ) but Arduino restricts it by putting 16Mhz
+crystal on the board.1
+This workshop is for people who want to open the hood of Arduino and fully utilize the features of ATMEL
+AVR chips. I will introduces how to program the AVR chip directly using C language, demonstrates many
+possible artistic applications of the chip, and practice to build/program a basic AVR-based device with
+participants. Participants donʼt have to buy anything expensive for starting AVR programming. They can
+actually use their Arduino as the writer of the AVR chip!
+ATMEL AVR ATMega 88
+Though there are more than 100 variant of ATMEL AVR microcontroller.  http://www2.atmel.com/
+The workshop focuses on ATMEL AVR ATMega 88 PDIP. It costs around 3$ and available all over the
+world. It offers 131 powerful instructions,  on-chip multiplier, 6 PWM channels, 6 10 bit ADC, SPI bus, and
+various timers. It runs maximum 20 Mhz with an external crystal.
+Refer http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/2545S.pdf for further speciﬁcation.
+ Probably because they are using ﬁrmware based USB connection using second ATMEL chip on the board.
+What workshop covers
+AVR chip offers very many functions and it is impossible to cover
+everything in limited time. So I would like to separate my workshop into
+two parts; demonstration and practice. The workshop is going to be
+around 3-4 hours.
+I. DEMONSTRATION (90 minutes)
+In this section, I will introduce basic speciﬁcation, procedure of AVR
+programming, and various applications of the chip by showing different
+pre-built circuit based on the AVR chip.
+. Overall information of the chip
+! - Where you can buy chip
+" - Price / model list
+" - Basic speciﬁcation of the chip
+. How to program AVR chip on Mac and Linux
+! - How to use avrgcc and avrdude
+" - Commercial Writer AVR ISP MK II - 34$ (Fig.1)
+" - Handmade Writer USB ASP (Fig.2)
+" - Using Arduino as AVR writer
+" (http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoISP)
+. Applications
+! - How to create LED ﬂasher
+" - How to create MIDI message generator
+" - How to create Potentiometer to MIDI device by using built-in ADC
+" - How to send serial (UART) messages from the chip and receive them in Pd
+" - How to use USB message without any other device (V-USB 2)
+" - How to use timers
+" - How to use PWM and create sound with it
+" - How to establish SPI connection in order to access external memory, ADC etc.
+" - How to create AVR programmer by yourself
+" - All source codes and schematics will be uploaded online so that the participants
+" are able to download and utilize them later
+II. PRACTICE (90 - 120 minutes / depending on the number of participants and competence )
+In this section participants will make a basic hardware using AVR microcontroller.
+Possibly, 6 channel MIDI or USB-based digital controller based on gnusb by anyma http://www.anyma.ch/
+research/gnusb/ This part is dependent of the facilities of the venue and available components in
+Germany.
+Prerequisites
+• Basic knowledge of C language and unix commands are preferred
+• Basic soldering technique and knowledge of electronic circuit are preferred
+• The AVR programmer runs on Linux, Mac, and Win. I will use linux or Mac for the workshop.
+ http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html V-USB project ﬁrmware based USB device using AVR
+ﬁg.1
+ﬁg.2
+Bio of instructor
+Chikashi Miyama is a composer, video artist, interface designer, and performer. He received his MA
+(2004) from Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, Japan, and Nachdiplom (2007) from Music academy of
+Basel, Switzerland. He is currently attending the State University of New York at Buffalo for his ph.D, and
+teaching electronic music as a TA. He has studied under Takayuki Rai, Georg Friedrich Haas, Jacob
+Ulmann, Erik Oña, and Cort Lippe. His compositions have received a second prize in SEAMUS
+commission competition (2010/St. Cloud, USA), a special prize in Destellos Competition (2009/
+Argentina), and a honorable mention in the Residence Prize section of the Bourges Electroacoustic Music
+Competition (2002/France). In addition, he was selected for SUNY chancellor's award (2011/USA). His
+works and papers have been accepted by ICMC ten times, by NIME four times, and selected by various
+international festivals in more than 100 times in 17 countries, such as Mix, Re:New (Denmark), Musica
+Viva (Portugal), Espace sonore, dBâle, SHIFT (Switzerland), Next generation (Germany), Agora
+Resonance, Scrime (France), Lica-Mantis (UK), June in Buffalo, NWEAMO, SPARK, NYCEMF, SEAMUS
+(USA), Sonoimágenes (Argentina), SuperCollider symposium, Pdcon, and Dorkbot meeting. He is going
+to move to Karlsruhe and work at IMA, ZKM as a guest researcher in 2011 and 2012 taking advantage of
+DAAD scholarship.
+Relevant workshops held by the instructor
+June 2-4 2008 "" Qgo-AVR workshop at Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
+" " " Organized by SGMK (Schweiz Gesellschaft für Mechatronische Kunst)
+Oct 31- Nov2 2007" Sensor-Instrument DIY workshop, Zurich, Switzerland
+" " " Organized by SGMK (Schweiz Gesellschaft für Mechatronische Kunst)
+Relevant  conference peer reviewed paper
+Peacock : a non-haptic 3D performance interface
+http://chikashi.net/detail/download?ﬁle=43doc.pdf
+This project utilizes AVR micro controller.