Is there a small firmware upload-only program?

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Lets say I have an arduino in use somewhere far away that I wanted to change firmware on. I would like to change the script here and e-mail it to someone where the arduino is. Is there a lite version of the IDE that someone could use to upload new firmware to the device? Possibly pre-compiled on my end, and just e-mail the compiled firmware and an uploading app (for windows) to the person with the device? The idea being that the other person doesn't have to mess with downloading and decompressing the 80MB IDE.

-Lance

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basically you could look up how avrdude uploads the compiled data and write a batch file accordingly.

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for a specific piece of firmware it wouldn't be hard to package the standard upload program which is called avrdude.exe along with a couple of config files and your compiled code.

I wouldn't worry about it til you get everything else working.

If you need to dig in now, have a look at avrfreaks for a tutorial about uploading code.