Hi I have a project I have been using a arduino mega with but am in the process of creating stand alone boards for this I don’t need all the pins on the mega so I was thinking of using the atmega1284p instead of the 2560 does anyone know the process of loading the bootloader to the 1284p with the newer ide or would it just be easier and better to stick to using the 2560
install MightyCore
+1 for MightyCore
other option is to make your own custom board definition
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I have custom boards made but I have just been plugging the mega2560 in on to my board and I’m looking to just use a chip now instead of the whole board to make my custom board smaller I tried to load the bootloader to the 1284p but was failing from ide so I tried nick gammon bootloader and it loads but when I tried to load the actual program it was telling me signature was incorrect but I kept playing around with ide and finally got the bootloader to load and a program so everything seems to be working now I ended up using JChristensen method and files but I will also take a look at yours
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