OK, I still don't have my ATTiny programmer working yet, but I'm thinking positively.
When I do get it working, where do you plug the chip in to program it ? I have a 6 pin and a 10 pin cable sticking out of the device, but if I counted correctly, the ATTiny chip that actually came with the kit is actually 20 pins.
As you can tell, I'm a newbie.
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Where to you put the ATTiny when you program it ?
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Check out Evil Mad Scientist Lab's post about Minimalist Target Boards.
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As to why it is done this way - Those 6-pin and 10-pin connectors are standardized pinouts for Atmel AVR in-circuit programming. The idea is that nearly any board that is designed to be reprogrammable will have a 6-pin or 10-pin header compatible with the connectors on the USBTinyISP. (ISP stands for In-circuit Serial Programming, sometimes called ICSP.)
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I think that I'm starting to understand. Thanks.
So then once I get my unit working, if I get a breadboard and solder a 6 pin and a 10 pin IC socket into it with 6 pin and 10 pin connectors, then I should be able to program using that board right ?
The other question I have is that the ATmel chip that comes with the ATTiny has 20 pins, so how would that chip have been programmed ?
It doesn't look like I could program it with the ATTiny ?
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So then once I get my unit working, if I get a breadboard and solder a 6 pin and a 10 pin IC socket into it with 6 pin and 10 pin connectors, then I should be able to program using that board right ?
The other question I have is that the ATmel chip that comes with the ATTiny has 20 pins, so how would that chip have been programmed ?
It doesn't look like I could program it with the ATTiny ?
-S
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