A low-cost prototyping board for use with Atmel's 40-pin AVR microcontrollers. The AVR-Ready board features a rectifier and voltage regulator and can be used with AC or DC mains adapters from 8 to 16V. Clock and reset circuitry are provided as is a handy prototyping area. The board also has five 10-way IDC headers providing access to the AVR's I/O ports and these may be used in conjunction with MikroElektronika's range of add-on boards. This makes the AVR-Ready board a useful step on from the EasyAVR5 development board as projects can be started using the EasyAVR5 and then migrated to a AVR-Ready board to easily create a prototype or finished circuit. The AVR-Ready board includes a connector for use with the AVRprog2 programmer for in-system programming, but alternatively AVRs can be programmed in an EasyAVR5 development board or any other programmer and then inserted into one of the AVR-Ready's 40-pin DIP sockets. Two sockets are provided: one for ATmega8535/16 pin-compatible devices and one for ATmega8515.