XO Stick/Bootloader

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This page is work in progress.

An Arduino can be used as a programmer. This is based on [1]

Burning-bootloader-pinout.jpg

Pinout, using a Duemilanove as the programmer and XO Stick as the target

Burn-bootloader.jpg

Burning the bootloader with an Arduino

Download the ArduinoISP program to the Arduino which you are using as the programmer.

Arduino only supports the ATMega chips. There's some progress on ATtiny support but it's not stable yet. This is the project we've been following:

http://embedded-creations.com/projects/attiny85-usb-bootloader-overview/

This was replaced by https://github.com/Bluebie/micronucleus-t85 ... but it isn't clear how to program this into an XO Stick yet. Has anyone done it? --Quozl 09:11, 19 March 2013 (UTC)