On May 26, 2010, at 2:00 AM, solarwind wrote: > And the potentiometer physically fits into the female socket > perfectly. I was asking if it was safe to do so. This is the first > time I'm touching an AVR. Should work fine. You'll have to map the "analog" pins to equivalent pin numbers for use with pinMode() and digitalWrite(), but that's easily done (Analog 0 is 14, and so on.) (IF you stay within the arduino software framework...) BillW -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist