Many people’s starter into the world of hardware hacking used to be the AVR microcontrollers. Today, small ARM starter boards are a lot cheaper. But if you want to understand what happens in a microcontroller, something simpler such as the AVRs is still your best choice.

There is a project “AVR Plugin for Eclipse” that makes programming AVRs with Eclipse real fun. However, I found it to be in a kind of “intermediate state” lately. That’s why I started my fork on GitHub, thus trying to keep this plugin useable for me and for others.