I hope you liked my Instructable and I hope it helps you. I know I wish I had something like this when I was first trying to figure this all out. I must say though I can't take all the credit - I must thank the Arduino product and website for making a great product. The Arduino website is a great source of information and is actually where I got a lot of information about the minimum required components to get a chip to work away from an Arduino board.

The other great source was at: ITP Physical Computing ... particularly the Arduino-specific web page.

And I can't forget the Getting Started with Arduino book that I mentioned in Step 7 - it was a great resource for getting me started with my Arduino.

And last but not least, if you've got this far, thank you for reading!