Turning an Arduino of virtually any sort into a simple AVR 6-pin ISP programmer is old hat. But when Atmel came out with a series of really tiny AVR chips, the ATtiny10 and friends with only six ...

IC socket – 1 Your Arduino UNO board (here used as a programmer) If you go through the Arduino IDE you can see an example sketch called “Arduino as ISP”. If you upload this code to your Arduino, it ...

The only trick is that you’ll first need to re-flash the existing ISP firmware with one that lets you upload code to the device itself over USB. If you don’t have an Arduino on hand to re ...