As a brief reprieve from my main CPC2 project, I sidetracked into Arduino programming to solve a problem on the CPC2. I need to create an interface to a memory card, with only two wires. To do this, I’m going to use an Atmel (Microchip) ATtiny841 to interface between the memory card SPI interface and a two-wire serial UART. To program this device without spending heaps of money on a dedicated programmer, I’ll use an Arduino to program the Tiny. This post covers setting up an Arduino to write a bootloader into another Arduino or Atmel chip. To test this process, I used an Freetronics EtherTen to program a Freetronics Eleven that had a damaged bootloader.  I’m using version 1.8.5 of the Arduino IDE.

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