[Scott] is a big fan of the Arduino platform, and he’s not afraid to admit it. It does all the things he needs, but now and again he would like to use something a bit smaller, without all the bells ...

Celebrating little victories means a nice cup of tea as I managed to transfer an Arduino programme into an AVR ATtiny85 microcontroller. Like the people in and surrounding Raspberry Pi, clever souls ...

Make your own ATtiny 85 programmer using an Arduino Nano and a custom made PCB! I've been building a few projects of late that use a ATtiny 85 microcontrollers and wanted to create a specifically ...

To program the ATtiny, simply flip the switch to the “Programming” position.A red LED lights up to indicate that the device is in programming mode.Once programming is complete, return the switch to ...

The ATtiny 45 and 85 Programmer Shield is the product of a bored Saturday afternoon and using what I learnt from reading High-Low Tech's tutorial on programming an ...

Following on from getting an Arduino programme to run on an 8pin ATtiny (ATtiny85), I need to invoke the in-built brown-out reset circuit – because my application involves running from an ...

Like many of us who fiddle with microcontrollers, [Mike] and [Brian] often found themselves using an ISP programmer and a USB-to-serial adapter. But when they started working on the latest generation ...