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> I agree, but I would say that for personal projects, I find the difference in price quite irrelevant

Yes, of course, but it just doesn't look good when the price almost doubled in twelve months, specially when you have better and more powerful micros like the STM32 for less money.

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They are more powerful but to say they are better you have to factor in the ease of use.

If you can get both MCUs to do the same thing but one of them takes 1/10th the time to set up then which one is better?

Sure, with "better" I was talking only about the features. I still prefer the AVRs for the ease of use, but they were as easy to use as today when the price was half it is now :)

So what is the price of the chip? If you are hobbyist, your main investment isn't going to be chips. Here in Poland, I can buy 5 ATMEGA 328Ps from Mouser for the price of single cinema ticket.

Any investment in time or tools is orders of magnitude more than prices of these parts.

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