Lets build an alarm clock.
It has to be better than a regular alarm clocks in several ways. The first thing is that the alarm should only sound on work days. It should not go off on weekdays nor on days on an exception list, these are holidays, no work.
It should slowly begin making chirping noises [...]
I installed the bootloader on 25 atmega268 chips that I just bought following these directions: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoISP
I saw the hackduino project here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Perfboard-Hackduino-Arduino-compatible-circuit/ This looked very interesting and I knew that I could complete this project with minimal effort. I also thought that I could route the wiring so that it took up minimal space.
I wired [...]