Adruino Uno and programming chips

retrolefty:

Henry_Best:
How do you do that if you've got a Uno with an SMD chip?

Well of course you don't. The UNO SMD board was first released when there was a industry shortage/long lead time delay on the DIP 328p chips making the delivery of the standard Uno delayed/backordered. Today there is no good reason to buy a SMD uno over a DIP uno board, and several good reasons to buy the DIP version. Easy repair for damaged AVR chip. Easy development for standalone chips. Are they priced differently? Again a SMD Uno is a poor choice as long as the DIP version is available.

Lefty

It was a present. I didn't buy it :frowning: