Turning an Arduino of virtually any sort into a simple AVR 6-pin ISP programmer is old hat. But when Atmel came out with a series of really tiny AVR chips, the ATtiny10 and friends with only six ...

For example, you can use arduino-cli upload …. –programmer programmer-id for that. You can list the supported programmers with arduino-cli upload –fqbn arduino:avr:uno –programmer list.” ...

This Arduino ICSP programmer has been made from Alumide, a strong plastic with aluminum fibers. The cover is made from translucent POM, illuminated by three rings of in total 27 LEDs.

So if you wanted to build your own PIC dev-board (like this one) you can use your Arduino to flash the bootloader. This post comes hot on the heels of the Arduino being used as a PIC 16F programmer.

An Arduino is a popular open-source single-board microcontroller. Learn how to program one and let the possibilities take shape.