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How-To: Shrinkify Your Arduino Projects
Why people recommend it
Shows how to program ATtiny chips from the Arduino IDE with an Arduino acting as programmer, recommended for moving small projects off a full Arduino board.
Watch for: not every Arduino function works on the ATtiny
In their words
Inspired by this Make Magazine youtube video, I would like to use the ATtiny chips instead of the Arduino for most of my projects.
DudeOnRock on electronics.stackexchange.com, Aug 2013. CC BY-SA.
I followed this tutorial and got the following error when trying to compile upload the attiny85 sketch:
Toast on electronics.stackexchange.com, Aug 2012. CC BY-SA.
Watch this Youtube video for a guide to set it up - it is really useful.
David Holmén on arduino.stackexchange.com, Oct 2016. CC BY-SA.
