Electronic Basics #3: Programming an Attiny+Homemade Arduino Shield

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If you are using only a couple of pins of the arduino for your current project, you might be able to shrink the IC. I am going to show you an easy way to use an Attiny instead of an Atmega328.
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Killing Time, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

[@rahul81299]

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[@nextstorming3908]

I'm hooked on your electronics basics videos because they're so high quality

[@rharrington8669]

me too

[@djtoddles8750]

Agreed. His name is Scott and he is great, so the channel is aptly named

[@WarriorRev6300]

So now I'm watching them

[@BrockAngelo]

Just finished assembling my ATTiny programming shield. This works really well. Thanks!

[@greatscottlab]

+Brock Angelo Awesome

[@robinsharpe-yablonka6419]

Just like a EEPROM programmer I made a attitny and at mega programmer thanks for the help!

[@refusalpoi]

Your video quality has improved now I'm looking back upon your older videos. Keep up the good work!

[@tuhitatutorial]

Thank you, based on your video now I can use USBASP and USBTinyISP also for programming my Tiny84, Tiny85, and Tiny13

[@Elec-DIY]

You have some great videos, keep that good work up!

[@MaciekStaniec]

It worked after a year of fails. Thank you very much. ;)

[@weitingLin66]

Really high quality sharing, clarify lots concepts for me,tks

[@etiennegagnon5479]

+GreatScott! Why don't you burn the boot loader to the atttiny to run it at 8mhz instead of 1mhz?

[@KAFA2020]

I'm very happy for the video. Now I'm working with a arduino project where needed 3 I/O pin and 1 is digital pin-2 for interrupt. Could I use the tinny arduino for the interrupt functionality?

[@Irish_home_worx]

Thanks Great scott great tutorial. when i adjust the delay on/off time in the sketch it does not effect the attity code. Any solutions?

[@nickzhang9750]

Greetings! I like your videos. Recently I am doing an R/C project which involves using pulseIn on pin 3,4 to read receiver signals and use pin 0,1 for out put. However, it seems running very slow. Have you ever come across something like this?

[@kennyfication88]

Genial, wie immer! Super gemacht!

[@gio90s74]

GreatScott! I've made it! It works! Thank you. But now I have an answer...can programm also the attiny pins i've used to upload the code as output (pins 0, 1 and 2)? Or it makes troubles with the arduino? Hope i was clear...

[@messcommand7819]

Love this one .... GreatScott!

[@Tech_-ez7us]

I'm interested in home automation and off grid projects. I enjoy your videos and see a lot of potential. Perhaps you could show some power generation from Peltier...

[@greatscottlab]

Farm Tech Maybe in the future.

[@Saiya6CIT]

hallo ich bin aus mexiko I love your videos, please never stop making them.

[@norm1124]

Adding the status LEDs 7/8/9 from the Sketch is easy and helpful!

[@eidolon0]

Great tutorial! Finally made my ATTiny85 work, but this video is a bit outdated. For anyone struggling, check out the latest High-Low Tech tutorial, the latest version of arduino (1.6.7 at this time) works fine for programming.

[@Brianvanvlymen]

thanks for updated :)

[@thedankoona_5854]

thanks!

[@nachtfrosts]

That was quite a search until I found what you're talking about. :-D For everyone who's looking for a youtube channel called High-Low Tech, like I was, I think Danijel Milosevic was talking about this: highlowtech.org/?p=1695

[@habibjinadu9188]

@@nachtfrosts Thank you!

[@RahulSingh-my7vx]

sir when i program attiny85 it showing yenkie invalid device. check your connection double. please help me about this

[@asmodeus7781]

What kind of wires is he using on top of the Strip board for routing? Looks more substantial than remnants of component leads. Also looks a lot neater than if I were to strip my solid core to just the bare wire

[@vpertys]

0:53 "Trust me, i'm an engineer"

[@startobytes]

Hi, could you make a Video about how to use the Attiny10 with Arduino IDE and Arduino Uno?!

[@Fluburtur]

What kind of stripboard do you use? When I search for some on amazon I only find cheap ones that are rated pretty bad or expensive one with bunch of stuff on them, I only need a quare with holes an copper since im gonna cut it anyway

[@kayrunjaavice1421]

I would just buy the cheap stuff. What could possibly be bad with a piece of copper and silicone?

[@ramykotb9883]

I get an error "Serial wasn't declared in this scope" whenever i try to upload the ISP.

[@ciklois]

Hi GreatScott, what are you using for connecting pins on your prefboard, for example at 4:41 , and where do you buy them? Thanks

[@santiagolozanothuillier8477]

Nice tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

[@JFrap]

0:32 I think that the arduino ur holding is a counterfit. The deep blue pcb, the wierd usb and resistor next to it is a good sighn.

[@matthijsjanse3275]

Can you look at the miconucleus stuff wich allows a attiny 85 to use usb

[@NMexis]

is there anything you have to do differently if you want to program it with an arduino mega 2560?

[@micromachine9975]

Hello Could you make a video or some instructions for make a proyect with attiny85 and Bluethoot? Thank you. Congratulation for the channel

[@Afif87123]

Ahh, memories

[@anujamerwade3179]

Will you please help me regarding where can I download your multiplex arduino code from?

[@trashos817]

hello yesterday i bought an at tiny 85 and before 5 minutes it worked fine but the last time i plugged it in i put reverse voltage by mistake and now it doesnt run did i burn it?

[@hielkebaron7007]

Hee scott! Are there more ic's that you van program with an arduino??

[@Jajaho2]

Hey Scott, I think you mixed up the ground and the reset pin when you showed the attiny on the breadboard (alone). Please correct me if I m wrong.

[@Rafrial]

Thanks, it works. But how to RESET the program in ATTiny to the default?

[@RandomMusingsOfLowMelanin]

I saw the pinout of ATTiny an dit does have SPI pins. How should I use them?

[@matetsertsvadze5746]

can you program any atmel microcontroller from arduino. And make small video about it. great video thanks

[@kaylanipimp1]

In order for using the Arduino the old way after using it for programming the Attiny should I just go on Tools/Programmer and select ArduinoISP instead of Arduino as ISP or do I need to burn the Bootloader again?

[@avisoomirtee6882]

hey... i`ve been able to program the ATtiny but i want to use the RF links with two ATtiny85 and am not being able to do it. Can you make a video it plz...!

[@djtoddles8750]

0:51 That does seem legit, in fact there's enough room to fit 2 or 3 more of them, should I try that?

[@shabukajla3876]

Is there any problem in using arduino ISP when I am not coding some other microcontrollers but sticks to use the inbuilt 328 p

[@NorthernEclips3]

Can I get an amazon link to the bridge wire you use?

[@Flankour]

Hallo, deine Videos und das was du machst finde ich echt Klasse. Weiß du zufälligerweise welchen Beruf man da am besten erlernt um das "ganze" mit den Transistoren, Programmierbare chips usw zu erlernen? Mich fasziniert das gerade echt, was alles möglich ist. P.S fange in 2 Monaten meine Ausbildung als Fachinformatiker in der Richtung Systemintegration an. Ich weiß, man kann sich vieles selbst beibringen, aber in einer Ausbildung oder so geht man natürlich noch viel mehr ins Deteil.

[@S-Tach]

It was very nice video. ..please make veriable timer relay trigger with potentiometer to adjust time delay using attiny mcu.

[@100roberthenry]

i'm not getting the option to see the attiny in my board manager?........when i put the extracted attiny folder into the hardware folder where the avr folder is also , it stops the arduino programme starting?.....help. thanks .

[@lennybruder2153]

Hey, I bought 50 Attiny 13a to build some small things. But I can't find a esay Tutorial to Programm the Chip. Better said I can't programm the Chip, nothing work by me;(

[@tuhitatutorial]

Maybe too late, but I did it

[@lennybruder2153]

@@tuhitatutorial i also found a way

[@Javier_Corado]

Why when programming the ATMega328 via ISP nobody use a capacitor between reset and ground, but when programming the ATtinny85 everyone put a 10uF capacitor?

[@martinwhitehurst9893]

i have 1.6.2 Arduino, will this work or do i need to download the 1.0.5?

[@prithvi0parimal]

why did u use a capacitor? and can i use the TX and RX with this method?

[@thedavinator37]

If I’m using the A0 and pins 7-12, where could I get an attiny that accompanies all of that?

[@the9tailsupersaiyan]

How could one do this with an Arduino mega?

[@guillaume8437]

Hi! Could you please tell where you got this RGB LED ribbon thing?

[@chago868]

How do you vary the Frequency in the ATTiny Code?

[@Ahmed.Al-Hloul97]

Mr GreatScott! Why should I put a 10 microFarad capacitor between the reset pin and the ground pin? And if I didn't use the capacitor , what would happen ? And is it necessary that the capacitor's value is 10 microFarad ?

[@JimisekMichalas]

ahmed alhloul you put it there so arduino wont reset :) at least its how I understood that.

[@Loundre3]

To filter out high frequency noise, so the Arduino doesn't reset randomly.

[@hongbohe4454]

In my opinion, Arduino IDE will send reset signal once you hit "Upload" button, despite the Uno on the other side of USB cable is running "Arduino ISP" sketch and actually not the target you want to upload your program into. Your Uno will be reset and broke the uploading operation. By hooking reset-pin of Uno with capacitor your Uno will continue working and "Arduino ISP" sketch will handle your program to ATtiny. If you Upload with "Uploading using programmer"(option-click Upload button or alt-click for a PC) sometimes you won't need a capacitor. It will treat your Uno as an ISP and tries to reset the target chip instead of Uno itself. But in recent versions(1.8.7) broke this feature and Uno will still be reset. It is because a protocol change and Uno will still treat this signal as reset. see this for detail github.com/arduino/Arduino/issues/8293

[@makmoeen]

if I won't to open or close the machine which prog I have to used and how??

[@alincristea2419]

what kind of wire do you use on pcb? I don't think is copper. What type of alloy is?

[@lfrdo7815]

hi im not able to program attiny 85 20 mhz i tried every way , and it still said that is not in sync , im using arduino uno atmega 328pu , waht version of ide is better ?

[@imraanmitha3280]

Can someone explain why we have to have the capacitor between arduino reset and gnd?

[@ralphchen1125]

can you provide the link about the perfboard you used?

[@girideshkumar4]

I want to know what is the use of uploading isp code and what it is .

[@melplishka5978]

Awsome vid Scott ty.

[@MRTz_music]

can you give me a specific artiel number of the attiny85 becaus i didnt f8nd the right one

[@dominadorfuerte1600]

Can you make a video for explaining 2 pwm signal output coding for attiny85

[@ronto55]

Where did you plug the condensator?

[@subscribetopewdiepie5259]

So why should we put a capacitor between the reset pin and ground ?

[@mastergscrewu]

I really like your videos and your projects. I want to start making my own staff but I need to know more about electronics is there any web page that you suggest or any book? Thanks keep making videos they are the best!!

[@greatscottlab]

mastergscrewu Instructables.com is a really good information source.

[@RAPXZibit]

Can you provide a library for a attiny SPI?

[@girishchandra6722]

Is it possible to program attiny 85 with arduino lenaordo?

[@nebrasjunaid7073]

is it possible to use esp8266 instead of arduino ono???? and how is the connection will be??? could you help me please!!!!!

[@anthonyperks2201]

That video is fantastic.

[@tom20001229]

umm... can i use another 10uF capacitor instead of electrolytic capacitor?

[@denizpnarl3059]

Does this method also takes care of bootloader or we need to buy AT-tiny 85 with bootloader already burned?

[@diyelectronics5537]

You have to burn the bootloader before uploading the code. Anyway burning the bootloader can be done with this shield

[@adbol0532]

Can I use 22uF capacitor?

[@Xyz-77]

Can I use this method with attiny11?

[@umargul5644]

Well done sir

[@sasoyu8922]

It does not work for me, it gives the error "invalid device signature 0x000000"

[@TheAnical]

What if you DID plug the AtTiny84 in , then cut the other board to fit the other data pins.

[@RobinGlauser]

Can you reverse the order of the electronic basic playlist? KZbin plays first number 20 and so you can't watch them in one go.

[@ahmedboudi1808]

Thank you...Good Explain ....pofessional vedio!!!!

[@TheHowToGuy995]

You are the one of the few that can solve this mystery. I uploaded a sketch to my attiny85 that outputs PWM according to a potentiometer. It didn't work. It drew about 2.8-3.5mA, but when I unpluged the ground to the attiny, it started working and only drew around 0.7-2.5mA. Why is this? And why will it not work when ground is connected to the attiny?

[@RandomLOLGamer]

It is hard to know what is the problem if you dont list every connection here. Probably the potentiometer keeps sucking current - use higher ohm value pot. Protip - Make your sketch work on an arduino uno or nano, and use Serial.println(value); to debug the code.

[@djstress260]

really tnx for this video ... really help me

[@edsonsilva7912]

Very nice idea!!!

[@yunpun3198]

2:07 do you need an ATMEGA to do this? What is this step for

[@ivanstanojevic1728]

Does attiny support IRremoute libary?

[@harisankar1024]

Can you make a brand new tutorial series?

[@nikhp7419]

Where can i find the product list?

[@joseferrufino9090]

What kind of metal do you use

[@vishnu7794]

Great video

[@mathieub3953]

Is it an issue if I use 47uF instead of 10uF between reset and gnd of the arduino? I have an Arduino Mega 2560.

[@greatscottlab]

+Mathieu Bacquet Should work.

[@britishtechguru]

I'm getting into the ATTiny85 myself. I bought a programmer for it but it didn't work. I'm not sure which way around the capacitor should go on the Uno.

[@Cortez3333]

doesnt the Attiny needs a 16Mhz crystal (same as the arduino) to run in propper time? (in this case, .5 sec blinking)

[@althuelectronics5158]

Your all video sooper happy to watching this video

[@PanZombiePig]

Hey, i had atmega8 programmer but i wanted your LED controler with tiny. I dont know Arduino code. I am using C and CodeVision. Can you help me with this remake pls? :-)

[@XInfinity2024]

Good video. Can you make a video on doing this on a Raspberry Pi?

[@lukasheiligenbrunner2272]

Ist es auf diese Weise auch möglich einen Atmega8 zu programmieren? Is it possible to program a Atmega8 in this way? lg.

[@billgabo]

I found a lot on "Attiny", which are you using in this video?

[@billgabo]

William Gabriel Campos Villarraga Attiny85 .....I don't hear it in the video ;)

[@greatscottlab]

William Gabriel Campos Villarraga Yes

[@shlomohassid5888]

I love those tiny micros - Built a custom UNO shield just for this that supports all tiny micros with some dedicated test sockets too. you can find it on tindie - Just type 'All ATtiny Arduino programmer shield'

[@Cyb3rty]

Can i do the same with attiny13?