We think of the Arduino as a rapid prototyping tool but we never thought of it as an FTDI breakout board before. [Ihsan Kehribar] wrote a quick post to show how it’s done. You’ll find an FTDI ...

Once installed, just connect the FTDI programmer to the FTDI programming port of DIY Arduino accordingly ... you can configure the ATmega328 to use its internal 8 MHz RC oscillator as a clock source ...

So he tried his hand with some really small SMD parts by building this USB to serial Arduino programmer. The chip he went with isn’t the FTDI part we’re used to. Instead of using an FT232RL ...