i am new to circuits and just got arduino yesterday . i am looking to make a mood light for a project. got the light to work using this link. now i just need to know how to take the chip out of arduino and wire it into a stripboard to get the same result. i haven't been able to find an answer by searching. most of what i see is to remake the arduino on breadboard and that seems like alot of extra work and much more expensive than i want. don't want to have any extra parts i don;t need to light the light.
If you don't need as many pins, or things like serial support, the ATtiny85 is cheaper than the ATmega328's used in Unos. Here is one description of how to use your Uno to load an ATtiny85: http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=1695
i tried doing this. i didn't have exactly what was called for but used similar items instead of -2 22 pF capacitors i had 220pf and i found a crystal clock off some radio i had with part number d720e8i. then i wired it up according to that data sheet and what i had on my bread board. so instead of green light at bottom that blinks i have a rgb and 3 resistors going to it from pins 5, 11 and 12 as that is what it shows digital pins 3,5,6 are. then i noticed i never conected a jumped from pin 7 to common anode on rgb. so although you didn't show me anything i hadn't tried or found myself it was in telling you my layout that i noticed my error. rgb is doing its rainbow effect now. thanks alot for your time. can't wait to play arounf with this thing more and i will check out those chips you mentioned.