I hadn't noticed that there is a prescaler for the main system clock on the Atmega8 series. Just looked it up in the datasheet now, really interesting. And the jeelabs.org site has some cool projects :).
Another obvious thing do to to lower power would be to turn off all the unused internal peripherals.
Thanks Kiril! Here's the
Thanks Kiril!
Here's the article you are talking about:
http://news.jeelabs.org/2009/05/14/power-consumption-baseline/
I hadn't noticed that there is a prescaler for the main system clock on the Atmega8 series. Just looked it up in the datasheet now, really interesting. And the jeelabs.org site has some cool projects :).
Another obvious thing do to to lower power would be to turn off all the unused internal peripherals.