Arduino as ISP shield project

Well, here it is:

The red and green leds are just RX/TX so I can see if it's doing anything and the yellow is on pin 13. (Why 13?) I may put a power led on it as well.

The way it sits (With no 2nd chip) I can use it normally. But I can load a chip in the 2nd socket and use Arduino as ISP to burn the bootloader and pull the bootloaded chip to continue working on stuff. Once I get ready to install a bare chip in a project I can just pull it out of the 1st socket and load another pre bootloaded chip.

I'll have to keep a chip with the bootloader on it on hand but I'll have it in my Arduino.

It may be a pointless little project since programmers are pretty cheap and easy to use but it was fun!

Some pics of the bottom side:

Now I have 3 chips ready to go :slight_smile: