Atmel ATMEGA8-16PU AVR 8-bit Microcontroller Chips (3-Piece Pack)

Pros: Good price for just 3 MCUs. Many I/O pins. Breadboard compatible 100%. It can work at 1 or 8MHz with no external oscilator/xtal.

Cons: Just 8KB of flash memory.

Other: It's nice to see MCUs at DX.com. I hope to find more of it, specially smaller ones, like attinys. I hope to find sockets too. Them're really needed.

Pros: Atmega8 is realy good device, I do not know why Atmel stoped making them. As for this shippmet, Shipping time is not the best, but normal to my location, and at first chips seams to be working.

Cons: Had some problems with ADC (analog to digital converter). Voltage measure is not accurate as it has to be. When raising the voltage, ADC bit value raises sometimes by 2 and sometimes about by 32 or something. So it is not so accurate as it has to be. :(

Other: It is good chip, good for starting to program microcontrollers. There are realy cheap programmers in the internet. Like I sead if you do not want to mesure voltage more accurate as 0.1V, then it is OK for you.

Pros: Is the just price, the Atmega8 is a good chip, one of the most used by the programmer in my county, because have advanced operations fot a just price, the datasheet is easy to find, and you can to understand how this works seeing the registers

Cons: Are easy to spoil applying a over-voltage or moving the fuses, this can cause a permanent internal damage. Be carefull when you manipiulate fuses

Other: works good

Pros: *Great Microcontroller *Due to it beeing an normal ATMega 8, all of its Pros apply: - Build in Timers - easy to program - programmable in C, Basic, ASM and more - Hardware interrupts - low power consumption

Cons: - None. Work as they should ;)

Other: I don't know if a got the normal or A type, but that doesn't really make a difference anyways - great price for 3 ATMega8 Controllers!

Pros: This is a popular ATMEGA chip. It has 8K memory, enough for small Arduino projects. It features nearly all functions of it's big brother, the ATMEGA328, with the same package and smaller price. It is very stable and works OK with external crystal oscillator up to 24 MHz, even the maximum from catalog is 16 MHz. (must be tested with every chip). I recommend using it without Arduino bootloader, because otherwise you will lose 2K of memory. Very simple to use and to program (using another arduino with ARDUINO as ISP.)

Cons: No cons.

Other: Very good way to start playing with Arduino.

Pros: Cheap, comes in an electrostatic plastic package. I've bootloaded mine following instructions (in portuguese) at http://economizandoenergia.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/bootloader_atmega8_bb.png

Cons: No bootloader, so you'll have to burn it yourself. I ordered two packages in two separated orders. One of them tookmore than 2 months to arrive.

Other: I am satisfied and I will order more of them in the future. Unless they offer ATMega128P-PU and ATMega328P-PU.

Pros: First I want to mention that chips were packed in hard plastic pipe and I received chips undamaged. Chips' quality seems to be very good. Pins are sturdy and shell is smooth; nothing bad to say appearance. I programmed one of the chips to control LEDs and it works very nicely. Everything seems to be fine. Package of three and very low cost chip.

Cons: As a chip, AtMega8 is not on the top; 8k of flash memory, 28 pins. Annoying is that just one of three counters is 16-bit. One of the other counters provides only 8-bit counting system, no PWM. No more than one channel ADC. But after all this is VERY NICE CHIP!

Other: Recommend!