Attiny85 as USB-to-Serial

bauerbyter:

  1. is it possible to take an attiny85 with this bootloader to make an USB-2-Serial Adapter for normal Arduino projects?

Yes, but don't do it. This forum has about 10000000000000000 posts from people failing to get software serial working on Tiny85.

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