Atmega Microcontrollers

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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hi,

I've a couple of 28 pins Atmega lying around (ATMEGA 8L - 8PI).

Can it be used with the arduino directly, for programing?

Or is there any other way to use them with the arduino (for programing)?

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Well the arduino IDE does support the older NG arduino board that uses a avr mega8 controller. However you would have to have the proper bootloader burned into the mega8 chips before they could work with the IDE. All possible, lots of details, lots of info posted around here and on the arduino home page.

Lefty