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Your cart is empty.The ATTiny45 and 85 are a couple of really cool little MCUs but did you know you can program them in Arduino? That's right, now you can shrink your Arduino projects down to "tiny size" by moving your code straight over to these small but capable ICs. The standard method for programming the ATTiny ICs involves a breadboard, lots of jumper wires and a hardware programmer, but David Mellis over at MIT Media Lab has simplified the process by laying out this handy USB programmer.
The Tiny AVR Programmer plugs directly into your USB port and provides a programming socket for the ATTiny45 and 85. Just slot an ATTiny into the socket, plug the programmer into your USB port and start up the Arduino IDE. After installing the proper board definitions, you simply program it the same way you would any other Arduino board. The programmer even breaks out the IC pins to female headers so you can easily prototype around the ATTiny without pulling and plugging it over and over. The ISP header is also broken out so you can use the programmer for other AVR microcontrollers!
Note: You'll need to install the USBTinyISP drivers if you don't have them yet, you can find them in the documents below!
Areg Danagoulian
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2023
The product came damaged -- female pins are bent . Because people who packed it threw it in in a thin envelope.UPDATE: tried to connect it to the laptop. Nothing works, no lights, the computer doesn't see the device. It looks like the product is damaged beyond repair. Will have to return.
Why Fi
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2022
Build quality is great. Mine arrived functional and nice solder quality. Nothing bent.SparkFun Online Instructions are mostly good and well written, but outdated. If your are a noob but using Arduino IDE v. 1.8 then the SparkFun instructions may leave you frustrated because they point you to a GitHub for IDE 1.0 or 1.6 compatible adding, and I found those incompatible with IDE 1.8 (compiler issues.). If you use IDE 1.8 then search GitHub for “ATTinyCore” and use that, and then it’ll work. However, heed all other instructions and warnings about orientation, voltage, clock speed, etc from SparkFun.I would still recommend this programmer, as I assume anyone programming a Tiny is not a complete noob and can search and solve little problems. (I’m a noob and figured it out, so can you. Have fun!)
Jenn E.
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2021
The programmer works fine. It's easy to use if you follow the Sparkfun Hookup guide. Unfortunately the female header pins are sharply bent on one side so I can't connect to a breadboard.
Eugene P. Arnold III
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2020
Kind of bummed out about this one. The board showed up with one row of the female pins bent down. Sure, I can pull them up but one of the leads that gets soldered to the board broke from the bend. I really don't want to have to re-solder up something that I paid for. Others have given this board a very good review so I'm hoping when I get one that is not broken I'll have success. When that happens I'll be happy to change my review ratings.----- UPDATE -----Amazon replacement came in lightning fast! We are talking very next day! And the replacement is in good shape and works perfect. I have a Mac running 10.12.6. Placed my ATtiny in this board and plugged the board into the USB slot of my computer. Everything worked fine. All good here now ;-)
TGO
Reviewed in Germany on November 6, 2020
Macht was er soll - er programmiert ATTiny85Hinweis: Der ATTiny Programmer funktioniert auch unter Ubuntu zusammen mit der Arduino IDE. Dazu ist es allerdings notwendig eine udev-Rule zu erzeugen ( tgonet.de/blog/?p=2654 ).
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2016
Great USB programmer for ATtiny85. Works on Linux! Compatible with Arduino IDE!In order to set it up, I would recommend looking up SparkFun "Tiny AVR Programmer Hookup Guide" on Google.However, note that the SparkFun instructions are targeted towards Windows users, so for Linux users I found that you need a few deviations. Here is the process that worked for me on Linux:1. Download and install Arduino IDE from the official website (as per Sparkfun instructions)2. Download ATtiny Addon, find hardware/ folder of your Arduino installation and copy attiny content there (as per Sparkfun instructions)3. Launch Arduino IDE4. Plugin the Tiny AVR programmer with ATtiny85 already inserted (check the polarity as per Sparkfun instructions!)5. Good news -- you are on Linux! The device is recognized automatically, no USB driver installations are necessary6. Check that the device is discovered:$ sudo lsusbIn my case, I see this line that shows that the system sees a new USB device:Bus 002 Device 120: ID 1781:0c9f Multiple Vendors USBtiny7. Note the device's 'Bus' and 'Device id', we will use it to allow all users a permission to write to this device (otherwise, your uploads will fail on Linux since you have no permission to write to the device). In my case, the command is:$ sudo chmod 666 /dev/bus/usb/002/1218. Copy/paste the simple blinking sketch into Arduino IDE (as per Sparkfun instructions). Don't upload the sketch yet!9. In the menu "Tools", pick the following: * "Board" -> "ATtiny" * "Processor" -> "ATtiny85" * "Clock" -> "1 Mhz (internal)"10. Click "Upload" for your sketch (The first time, it will pop-up a window asking you where to save the sketch)11. Congratulations! Once upload is done -- you should now see the LED that is blinking every half a second!
Alex W.
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2016
I should start by mentioning that Sparkfun is a great electronics company. They not only offer quality products at very good prices but, they also have great tutorials on their website for the use of these products. The reason I purchased this was to program some AtTiny85s that I had and to do it in a way that wouldn't cause damage to the chip, which frequently happened using an Arduino Uno to do the programming.I would highly recommend this product for anyone who is looking to shrink their electronic tinkerings down to impressively small sizes. The one issue that I had using this product was not actually the fault of the product itself but, more due to my poor instruction reading skills. If you want to program these through the Arduino IDE you must remember to burn the bootloader onto the chip. I didn't know this and spent a few hours cursing until I realized the fuses had not been properly set by the burning process.
Mike Mandrea
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2015
Super simple to use and worked great right away. I had the blink script running withim minutes.One word of caution when you are keeping your ATTINY plugged in and using the female headers for prototyping. I tried hooking this up to an I2C rtc and spent hours trying to get it to work. I finally came across a reviewers comment on the sparkfun website that said:"the board holds the SDA signal on Pin 5 HIGH during the acknowledge clock cycle which results in not being able to detect an Acknowledge (LOW) from a slave device. The SDA pin during the acknowledge clock cycle is configured as an Input."Not sure if this will cause issues other than with I2C - so keep this in mind.Once I removed the ATTINY and used a breadboard instead, everything worked as expected. I just wish I had seen that comment earlier and thanks to whoever wrote it.
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