I want to design a bare-minimum board based on the Atmega328. I want to be able to use chips without a bootloader since they are cheaper. I want to save space and not have the ICSP connection on my board at all. I do need the FTDI chip for future updates. So my question is, can I burn a bootloader …

Burning a bootloader without an ICSP connection

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