LPC1768 ADC has too many glitches

The on-chip ADC in the Atmega lineup was so easy to use compared to the one on LPC1768. Last time I had tried, the Atmega ADC didn't need much filtering to give reasonable results. But the ADC module on LPC1768 seems unusable without filtering.

UART to USB converter using LPC1768 and AVR 8-bit UART library

While working on a project on the Atmega8 for school, the FT232 chip being used as a UART - USB converter failed. Well, actually its the board that failed, or rather broke...