FettesPS

I recently discovered that we had an old AVR STK500 development board lying around at work and when I had some free time I decided to play with it and see if I could use it to burn the Arduino Bootloader onto some old ATmega168 chips we had lying around. I was somewhat overwhelmed by [...]

The AVR Dragon is a little more of an expensive route to go if you’re looking to burn Arduino Bootloaders. They can ring in around $50 per unit, though they do come in a beautiful red box with a dragon painted on it. The USBTinyISP is about $10, for comparison, and will get the job [...]