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Program an ATtiny Using an Arduino

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I am a big fan of the Arduino platform. For those who aren’t familiar with the Arduino, it is a microprocessor development environment & ecosystem. You can visit their site for more info. I started playing with the Arduino and soon discovered the ATtiny microprocessor chip, which is a much smaller cousin to the ATmega series which is used in the Arduino.  Unfortunately, the Arduino IDE did not support it. Since most micro development apps run only on Windows (I use Ubuntu Linux), and require either expensive compilers or hard to use C or Assembler, I was never up to the effort required in using the ATtiny chips.

All of this changed yesterday when I was going through my Arduino notes and came across some attempts by others to use the Arduino IDE to program the ATtiny. One fellow was successful on the ATtiny45. Another tried on the ATtiny85 but didn’t seem to get as far. After much searching, I stumbled across the Arduino-Tiny project. The project is fairly mature, and they have already done all the hard work. The result is fantastic. You can program in C++ using the regular Arduino libraries (which have been modified for the … Read the rest

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