so I got this monitor working in two really weird ways, but I am trying to make a shield that I can both program and do a serial monitor on, but that involves downloading two sketches on the arduino (one for the Arduino ISP) and another one that actually lets me read serial. first one is the sketch…

serial monitor for attiny85

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