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AVR
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To setup the environment go HERE Eclipse is the best IDE to mess with AVR microcontrollers, don't even try to argue with that.
AVR are like UNIX in microcontrollers world - they're old (first were developed in '96), compared to Arduino™ hard to learn, but stable and effective (if you know how to use them). If you want to make some cheap-ass electronic project, lighting driver for example, there's no better technology to choose. Only thing you need to start is USBasp programmer and some basic electronic components like capacitors, resistors.
