Arduino as ISP

Using Arduino Microcontrollers
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I'm trying to use the Arduino Nano as ISP to program the Attiny45 chip. I have double checked my wiring, downloaded all the correct files, and selected the correct settings (I think), but somewhere here I am going wrong. I uploaded pictures of my settings and the error. I think my error is that I need to add a 10uF cap on the arduino, but I'm not convinced that will make the difference but I will try that when I get a cap but open to other advice as well.

The error that says "the selected serial port avrdude: stk500_disable(): unknown response = 0x12 does not exist or your board is not connected."

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it is sure that "stk500_disable(): unknown response = 0x12" is not a serial port.

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Which version of the Arduino IDE are you using?

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Looks like Arduino 1.8.1

It's possible that it's a serial port error but I can talk to the Nano that is the ISP just fine.

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The nano probably has an old bootloader, so the ISP sketch has probably not run when avrdude tries to talk to it. I would say update the bootloader, but then you would need an ISP tool... chickens and eggs then turtles all the way down.

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ron_sutherland:
The nano probably has an old bootloader, so the ISP sketch has probably not run when avrdude tries to talk to it. I would say update the bootloader, but then you would need an ISP tool... chickens and eggs then turtles all the way down.

with this a capacitor on reset pin should help

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I'll give it a try tonight with the cap and see what happens. Had to grab one from work :slight_smile:

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Remember when choosing your programmer in tools that 'ArduinoISP' != 'Arduino as ISP'.

I'm not saying that recently burned me, but yeah, it did.

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It's especially confusing that the sketch you use to make an "Arduino as ISP" is named "ArduinoISP".

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The cap did the trick, thanks for the help everyone!