Programming the ATtiny2313 Microcontroller

This is my first post on this new blog. I was inspired to do this by Jaimie Mantzel who makes YouTube videos about all the cool stuff he makes. I'm going to make videos, too and post them on YouTube and also in this blog, together with further explanations, links and discussions.

So this first thing is about the ATtiny2313 from Atmel. The programmer circuit I built is basically a clone of Brian Dean's Programmer. I used 470 Ohm resistors to limit the current through the parallel port. Pins 2, 3, 4 and 5 are used as power supply pins. Some medium-sized capacitor (47µF should be enough) is used as a buffer for VCC.

Now, see for yourself: