How To - Burn a custom bootloader to your Arduino

In this video I'll go through the steps of burning an Arduino bootloader using a USBASP 2.0 device and the Arduino IDE.

Here are the links to the various items needed for this process:

[glynharper]

Fantastic, editing the boards.txt file was what I'd forgotten and took me ages until I found your video. Many thanks! (Works for Mac too, by the way).

[donaldfilbert]

Excellent video !! Very clear and complete explanations with an easy to listen to delivery style. Superior to most I've seen. Thanks !!!

[jonvannatto]

Great explanation! I've been using AVRDUDESS for several years now for uploading to avrs. Really wonderful software.

[claudiomoles]

Excelent, so many videos create such a mess to program a bootloader using different programs. Just use Arduino IDE, simple and fast!!
Thanks for the fantastic tutorial.

[MyBigThing]

AWESOME! I really wish more people would upload proper videos like this if they're gonna record and upload content. excellent video! thank you for the information. I hope you keep stuff like this coming! I've had a Pro Mini in my tackle box forever and I haven't used it because of being to dumb n apprehensive...with this info the pro mini will be thrown into the rotation to finally get some use. thanks again!

[bradg]

Clean and neat video, Thanks for the effort!

[bradg]

very helpful and clearly explained in FULL !!!

[pierpa_pierpaolo]

Do you have any solution to restore the UNO and NANO boards with hardware modifications with jumpers and so on? I stand by. Thank you very much.

[PaulCavanagh]

Great tutorial, keep up the good work.

[MohamedAfzal]

possible to change the device detected name to any thing i want? any possibilities that you can share?

[Electromaniaworld]

adding custom bootloader - great tip :) thanks

[RETROGAME-FIX]

Hi, i want to update the firmware on the USBasp device, is there a way to update firmware using the pro mini.?? thank you.

[kayakerk]

Good Job! Had the same Problem with the UNO and made a little adapter board to plug in the usbaso cable and the mini. Also works fine.

Now I really want to try OTA but the flashing part is missing from this video.

[jumbo]

Try to flash NaNo and got this error:



Arduino: 1.8.11 (Windows 8.1), Board: "Arduino Duemilanove or Diecimila, ATmega168"

avrdude: warning: cannot set sck period. please check for usbasp firmware update.
avrdude: Expected signature for ATmega168 is 1E 94 06
Double check chip, or use -F to override this check.
Error while burning bootloader.

[SandraState]

Hi, any idea on how to burn Arduino on a blank Adafruit Feather M0 (ATSAMD21 chip)?

[ticktock]

i have a question what is this
avrdude: Yikes! Invalid device signature.
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override this check.
i had got about 50 + attiny 85 from JD joy buy and when they came only in plastic bag are they dead from static or am i doing some thing wrong.
the set up i have the attiny 85 will program perfect on the first batch i got, bit they had been in anti static tube...
hope you can help
i am using Arduino as ISP

[Al-bdhm]

Why I'm getting this error? The program with other Nanos is working. Thanks.
avrdude.exe: set SCK frequency to Hz
avrdude.exe: error: program enable: target doesn't answer. 1
avrdude.exe: initialization failed, rc=-1
Double check connections and try again, or use -F to override
this check.

[joseramondiazsanz]

I went a step further but I do not know if it was too hasty. I installed on a pcb the micro atmega328p-au including an external resonator of 8mhz. In order to be able to access its programming later, I arranged ISP and FTDI ports as if it were a pro mini 3.3v to 8mhz, however, following the steps that you indicated I was not able to establish communication. I tried different arduino plates such as pro mini or nano obtaining good results. But I can not advance my project.
Any suggestions

[wahidsalah]

thanks for the very clear and helpful video. I need to OTA, now can I burn the MYSBOOTLOADER and use my own sketch? and how to trigger flashing on the remote node ( the one which has MYSBOOTLOADER, which i tried and succeeded :) )? Maybe you can do a video on that ? thanks for your time.

[VolkansSpace]

So how can i with cmd without any ide, also i want to ask something, how mcu understand that this program is for bootloader you wrote, did you any change fuse settings, before flash bootloader section ?