We recently came across this instructable by rleyland on hacking our ISP Shield for Arduino for use with ATtiny45 and ATtiny85 microcontrollers. These are occasionally handy little AVRs, and we’ve previously written about using our ATtiny2313 target boards for the ATtiny25/45/85 family here.
Earlier this spring, we released our open-source ISP Shield for Arduino. After using them for a while, we’ve found a few ways to improve the design, so today we’re releasing version 2.0.
The ISP Shield 2.0 is also our first printed circuit board to feature the OSHW logo— the first of many, we hope. :)
The ISP shield kit is available at Evil Mad Science, and complete documentation is available at the Evil Mad Science Wiki.
The Evil Mad Science ISP Shield is a new open source hardware kit that we’re releasing today.
It lets you use your Arduino (or shield-compatible clone, such as the Diavolino) as an AVR ISP programmer, for example to burn bootloaders onto “raw” AVR chips, directly within the Arduino programming environment, either in the provided ZIF socket or on an external target board. You can read more about this process here.The circuit is designed to be compatible with the “Arduino as ISP” option in recent versions of the Arduino IDE. It is based on a number of prior hardware implementations, most closely the version by Andre Knoerig at Fritzing.
Complete documentation, including assembly instructions, design files, and basic usage information is available on the Evil Mad Science Wiki.
