A traditional microcontroller bootloader will completely erase the application flash space during the update process. This approach can waste time updating firmware if there were only minor changes to ...

Since you lacked the USB interface in your own Arduino board, it becomes necessary to use a homemade/ready-made USB to Serial Converter Module as an efficient and economical solution. Inexpensive and ...

There are a few different ways of getting firmware onto one of AVR’s ATtiny85 microcontrollers, including bootloaders that allow for firmware to be updated without the need to plug the chip i… ...

AVR microcontrollers without a bootloader must be programmed through the SPI, as described above. All microcontrollers (at least, those with datasheets) have a pinout schematic and pin description.

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