I can use this to upload sketches on the UNO R3 if I use the cap and reset button hack. I want to burn some bootloaders. I'm not finding much on how to specify the programmer options for this device in AVRDUDE. Anyone have a working configuration?
Thanks.
Thanks. Didn't answer the original question but who cares? Got the chip programmed and my board is blinking.
That's because your original question didn't make sense.
That device is a USB serial converter; it can be used to upload sketches to an Arduino compatible microcontroller, but only if it has a bootloader installed already. It cannot be used to burn a bootloader.
DrAzzy:
That's because your original question didn't make sense.That device is a USB serial converter; it can be used to upload sketches to an Arduino compatible microcontroller, but only if it has a bootloader installed already. It cannot be used to burn a bootloader.
From what I've read you can "bitbang" with it. Slow but should work IF you get the programmer section set up. Not worried about it at this point though. Thanks again.
That is agonizingly slow - There's a reason people don't use the bitbang bootloading method. Another reason is that dedicated programmers cost a couple of bucks on ebay (either USBAsp or Arduino Nano/Pro Mini running ArduinoAsISP sketch).