All that is required is to write an AVR programmer sketch to the Arduino and make the programming connections. We’ll take a look at this method later in the post.

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… ...

In contrast, Arduino systems have a relatively lower learning curve than conventional analog embedded systems, with the highly intuitive Arduino IDE simplifying many programming tasks.