hello,
I'm new to arduino, so sorry if this is a silly question:
i've been given an atmega3216pi on veroboard with a um232r USB to serial adaptor, and was thinking of re-using it.
I thought that I could connect it to a PC, like an Arduino board and program it via USB using Arduino.exe, but having looked into it a bit, I'm not so sure.
Do I need an actual programmer if I want to erase & re-program it? Is there a cheap programmer out there?
Or should I just buy a new Arduino board which works via USB (which seem cheaper than the programmers I've seen) and presumably incorporates a programmer?
thanks
I'm new to arduino, so sorry if this is a silly question:
i've been given an atmega3216pi on veroboard with a um232r USB to serial adaptor, and was thinking of re-using it.
I thought that I could connect it to a PC, like an Arduino board and program it via USB using Arduino.exe, but having looked into it a bit, I'm not so sure.
Do I need an actual programmer if I want to erase & re-program it? Is there a cheap programmer out there?
Or should I just buy a new Arduino board which works via USB (which seem cheaper than the programmers I've seen) and presumably incorporates a programmer?
thanks