Hello reader,
this is my tutorial how you should start with a new microcontroller project.

Step 1: Your Best Friends

The first thing you have to order are a perfboard and jumper wires.

Step 2: Choose Your Microcontroller

You don't have to choose one of these three. They are only examples.

Step 3: Components

Chose the components that you need. Finde out how the components work together and which port have to be connected with the microcontroller at which place. Components could be a sensor or a motor, anything you attach to the microcontroller.

Step 4: Connect the Components

Connect the components and the microcontroller you chose before with a perfboard and some jumper wires.

Step 5: Program

Now you can test your code and how your microcontroller works. If your code works you will solder the parts to a perfboard or will design a gerber file and solder the parts to it.