Smallest Arduino in an ATtiny85

Overview

In this video tutorial, we continue to shrink the Arduino; this time we use the ATtiny85 to make a small 8-pin Arduino running at 8MHz from the internal clock. This means that NO other hardware is required except a 5V source. We will go through how to download the hardware files needed to get the ATtiny chips into the Arduino IDE. We will then make the Arduino into an Arduino ISP and connect the ATtiny85. We will then finally program the ATtiny using the Arduino IDE and show off our cool blink sketch. This is Anything Arduino episode 3.

Links:

• Link to the highlowtech.org ATtiny information and downloads

• Highlowtech on Arduino as an ISP

• All pinout diagrams and datasheets for the ATtiny85