I have a handful of the tiny13a chips and would like to program them but all I have at the moment is an Arduino mini USB board. I found a couple of tutorials on how to program an Arduino Mini using the board and I found a few tutorials explaining how to program a tiny13a chip using an Arduino board but there seems to be a small gap there that I can't figure out.
Do I need to get myself an Arduino Uno or a mini or something? The USB board has a TX and RX but that's it.
This is my first try at Arduino boards too. I have a bit of experience with Picaxe but since I have those chips laying around, I'd like to put them to good use.
Serial Bridge I think you need to have that bootloader equipped.
That board seems like USB-UART interface. If you want to programme the Attiny,I think you will need an Arduino as ISP or an AVR programmer. The USB to UART works only for bootloaded chips and Serial connections.
You need an AVR programmer to make the ATTiny chip into an Arduino. You need to load the boot loader, which is freely available at Arduino.cc. An Arduino can be used as an AVR programmer, so you don’t need to buy new hardware as long as you have an Arduino. Even one of those clone Ardiono Nanos available on eBay should be a nough to program the bootloader.
Once you’ve got that programmed, than the USB should work as long as the voltages match.
Yes, I have a USB to 3.3v cable, so I can’t use this to program a 5v Arduino.
