As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m starting to look at projects that for various reasons don’t require a full arduino.  There are some projects that even the Arduino Pro Mini is too large for.  For this, I’m looking at using an ATtiny85 since I only need a few pins.  But first, we have to figure out how to program it.  There are several ways to program a stand alone IC and future posts will show these, but this post will focus on how to program using an Arduino.  There are already numerous tutorials of this online, but many of them are either incomplete or wrong.  Others just don’t answer some of the questions I had when I started and this is what I hope to fix with my version. Continue reading “Programming the ATtiny with an Arduino” →