I'm slightly confused as to what the boot loader is for. Surely all neccesary code can be loaded as the sketch and surely the chip doing the USB communication can emulate the ICSP ? Just wondering. The reason i ask is i wonder if the platform will ever extend to smaller chips for more compact proje…

Why the boat loader ?

Coding_Badly March 27, 2013, 9:51pm 7

Why the boat loader ?

At any given transfer rate, uploading through a bootloader is faster.

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