#181 ATTiny13 (and ATTiny85) Development Board, amazingly useful

A small development board for the ATTiny13 (and ATTiny85) for initial R&D.
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All this information plus more (pictures, prices, code, links etc) in my GitHub:

I discovered this **small microcontroller development board** on Banggood (link below, available elsewhere too, eg Amazon, AlieXpress) and was impressed at how easy it was to use as well as being so very useful.

So useful, in fact, that **I bought another**, removed the ATTiny13 chip and **soldered on an ATTiny85** chip in its place! Fantastic!

Now, instead of having to get out a breadboard and struggle to get various components placed on it with umpteen DuPont cables I just whip out this board and **start uploading code immediately**.

**ATTiny13 Dev Board** $7.66

**USBASP programmer** for all Arduinos, product link $2.66

USBasp (libusbk) **Windows Driver** by Thomas Fischl
including circuit diagram and full instructions

**10 Pin To 6 Pin Adapter** Board Connector For Arduino connection $1.41

All this information plus more (pictures, prices, code, links etc) in my GitHub:

#### OTHER STUFF mentioned in the video

Nerd Ralph's amazing touch Switch code for ATTiny13/85 in just 40 bytes

My **amended code** of Nerd Ralph's in my GitHub (**momentary action** instead of toggle)

Original Arduino playground **Touch Sensor**

**Sergiy Gryb's reworked on/off ATTiny85/13 code**
ShaggyDog18 Single-Smart-Button-PowerOnOff-control
Also add link to previous video

Nerd Ralph **PICO core** (work in progress)

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All this information plus more (pictures, prices, code, links etc) in my GitHub:

[flemmingchristiansen]

Good to hear from you, seems that you are getting over your pneumonia well. Sorry to hear your appointment got canceled, I will keep supporting your channel the best I can. I hope you get your eyes sorted soon, for a guy like you, and whose who follow you, it must be frustrating to lose your eyesight and not being able to do what you like.
The ATTiny boards is a good find, and good to know about the accessories, might get me some of those.
I was planning to keep this short and easy on your eye, I didn't succeed well. 😜
Until next time.

[tomgeorge]

Hi Ralph, take your time mate, there is lots of content for myself and others to browse on your channel.
I like the ATtiny projects..👍👍👍👍

[vonries]

Don't worry my friend, we have all turned on notifications by ringing the bell. You can't hide.
Take care of yourself! Don't over stress your eyes(either the good or the bad). It's not worth it. Besides we have to stick around, you have us as your extended YouTube family. You can't get rid of family, no matter how hard you try sometimes. Besides your the good part of our extended family we want to keep you Ralph!
I still like the idea of your board, because it was so easy to take the tiny## out after we were done shook we could add it to our projects. Keep healthy, don't worry about your loyal audience, and fine someone to pamper you(good luck with the last one).

[Ilikeridin]

Another excellent video. I’m yet to use an ATtiny but I do have plans for an led project with one. The board will make life easier in the prototype phase, as you said.
Hopefully all appointment will be rescheduled in the not to distant future.

[RalphDoncaster]

The t13 and t85 are both available in .15" wide JEDEC SOIC and .208" wide EIAJ
packages. The part numbers ending in SU are the bigger EIAJ version, and SSU is for the smaller SOIC. (see the "Ordering Information" section of the datasheet)

[ronen]

hi Ralph thanks for your efforts showing us your ideas 👍😄🛠

[gregwmanning]

Gday Ralph, From Aust I immediately thought of you when I heard the BBC news report that mentioned all British operations were stopping. Mate you are cetainly getting the rough end of the pineapple. I hope your operation's delay does not affect your longterm full recovery. I'll patiently await all your videos.
All the best Greg

[stevehallam]

Stick with it Ralph, do what you can and stay safe and well.

[Tsnafu]

Hello Ralph, I'm pleased to get any content from you, but if you'd like a suggestion for vids to make without close in work?
I still class myself pretty much as beginner, I understand what the various components are and what they do but I don't really know how the various components were picked, I just follow instructions e.g. I can understand why a certain capacitance was used when it is being used as a timer or as a filter but beyond that I have no clue. I know the difference between NPN and PNP transistors but not the differences between the various PNP (or NPN) transistors, so I would welcome vids that discussed these choices and how the decision to use one over another was made.

[fredflintstone]

Great video, sorry that you were pushed back on the op, but glad you are doing well and keep up the great videos, as we all stay locked in it is good to watch your vids

[michaelhyde]

Thanks for all the hard work. Best of luck stay safe.

[MrJozza]

Thanks for keeping up the content Ralph, sorry to hear your treatment has been postponed. No worries if there is no or little content in the next few months, I think we all have other things to concentrate on at the moment anyway, and it's good to be able to go over some of your older videos for projects that I have been meaning to do for some time. Perhaps with more time at home I might even get around to doing some of them now!

[SergiyGryb]

Hi Ralph! Thank you so much for sharing link to my code!
I am very pleased! :-)

[bipolarchemist]

Glad that you are back in good health. The times, they are crazy and I feel your pain on non-essential surgeries/procedures being canceled. For us here in the Seattle area, it looks like May 18th is the tentative date that things might go back to normal but I'm not holding my breath. Do what you can, when you can, and we'll be here, most of us probably starving for any sort of outside stimulus to keep the brain cells healthy and functional.

[superdau]

I doubt you can use an USB-to-serial converter to program the tiny (unless you use some software bitbanging upload protocol, that's highly dependent on the converter chip used). The USPASP "speaks" the native programing protocol of AVRs, USB-to-serial converters need the Arduino bootloader.
Btw. it's well worth getting multiple of the USBASPs including the adapter. You can use one to update the firmware on another (it's just an AVR after all). And for some projects, where you don't have a 6- or 10-pin header on the board, but connect the programming wires one by one, it saves a lot of hassle when you can just leave one connected until the end of the project and not have to reconnect every time you programmed some other board in between.

[Hasitier]

Thanks for the Video Ralph. Bad that they do not surge your eyes now but we all can understand that the car owners are more critical now. I’m sure you will find some projects that do not need such good eyesight. If I have an idea I’ll let you know. And no: we won’t run away from your channel if you skip one or another fridays video.

[programmingtips]

Thanks so much for putting this together! You are so helpful!

[SpeccyMan]

I have a couple of these little blue dev boards myself but mine have 12F675 PIC microcontrollers on them. Yes, I'm a glutton for punishment and occasionally I play with the PIC instead of AVR. As for your situation just stick to what you can do whenever you can do it. We fully understand. The world has decided to go mad for the time being and we're all having to endure changes to our normal routines - even those of us who really hate change.

[MYNICEEV]

RALPH. PLEASE PLEASE DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOUR SCHEDULE. WE WILL BE HERE WAITING. EVEN IF WE DON'T GET AN UPLOAD FROM YOU FOR MONTHS. AS LONG AS YT DOESN'T UNSUBSCRIBE US, WE WILL BE NOTIFIED YOU HAVE UPLOADED. WE WILL THEN RUSH OVER HERE TO SEE WHAT YOU ARE DOING FOR US. MANY THANKS MY FRIEND. ALSO WOULD ONE OF THOSE FLIPDOWN/UP MAGNIFYING ATTACHMENTS TO YOUR GLASSES HELP? REMEMBER. WE ARE HERE. YOU JUST TAKE IT EASY.

[JuanPab]

Hi Ralph
In the latest version of this development board, the Attiny13 is inserted in a socket. You can easily exchange the Attiny13 for an Attiny85, if necessary.