Back in my FreeBSD days I relied heavily on the locate command to find out where things were installed. Since switching to Debian based Linux I’ve found that command to be far less reliable. The reason for this is it relies on a database that is almost always out of date. Now this is also […]
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I’ve been monkeying around with different ways of uploading the sketches and bootloaders to ATmega chips and one of those ways is with the USBTinyISP which I picked up for about $10 on eBay. Even though once my bootloader was installed I never really needed to use the ISP programmer on my Arduino again I […]
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 […]