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 pi… ...

The ATtiny10 doesn’t use the familiar ISP programming header found on other Atmel-based boards. Instead, ... The Arduino-as-a-programmer idea is a great one.

Connect the programmer with your Arduino compatible board and start uploading the Arduino boot loader or upload your sketch. No drivers are needed, just select ‘Arduino as ISP’ from the IDE ...