Making Your Own USB Arduino ICSP Programmer

Happy Leap Day!!!

Apologies for my voice, coughing and sniffling I'm recovering from the flu. Anyway, so in line with a few recent projects I've done making my own development tools, I thought it'd be neat to make a tiny cute little usb icsp programmer that I can use to program future projects.

Now there is a catch: in order to make a usb programmer you kind of already need a usb programmer (or at the very least another usb programmable arduino) to program it (or find a friend who will do it for you)!

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[blaketundra]

This is what I'm talking about.. I have no use for this, I'll never make one. *But* ...this is awesome! Thank you, on behalf of the people that will use your design in the future.
Hope you feel better soon. ♡

[RGmodsitalia]

Wow Shawn your benché is super clean, mine is a hell of a one!! Anyway great project and video as always my friend!!

[-HDR]

If you want to remove a couple caps and a crystal, you can substitute the CH340G for a CH340C, the pinout is the same, but the CH340C does not need an external clock.

[Hugatry]

Very clean design!
The micro-USB connector and ISP connector are quite close to each other, though. Some micro-USB cables are quite bulky around the micro-USB plug, which could cause excessive sideways force on the connectors when using micro-USB connector. That's just a suggestion to think about, if you are going to sell these at some point. Not a big problem and not a problem at all, if you have a suitable cable or are only going to use the regular USB A plug.
Anyway, great job. If that was red, I could imagine it being made by Sparkfun :)

[linkmasters]

Yeah I just love the 8 bit graphics sound it’s awesome 😎 hope you feel better brother 😩😁👍

[grantscott]

This is really cool! I've been learning electronics and programming, etc and this (and your other videos) is amazing!

[fabrystyle]

Hi mate, thanks for sharing this.
Can I ask you why you didn't connect the two Capacitor next to the Oscillator both to CH340G and the ATmega328 ???
Thanks in advance.

[adennis]

i believer there is no way of buying a ready usb to icsp adapter?
I just need it to connected it to my 6 pin usb port of my echo plus

[asadulhuq]

Thanks for your device. Can this device load a hex file onto a PIC Microcontroller using Arduino Uno?

[seblee]

Great project! Can we have more of a close up solder time lapse next time please? 😊

[richardballinger]

Brilliant, are these available for sale? Just what I'mlooking for without all the other stuff on an uno.

[linkmasters]

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[mypeeps]

Get well soon SJ. Please get a better mic or adjust your software so We can hear you. My volume it at 100% and I can barely hear you. Take care and thank you for the knowledge!

[linkmasters]

Yeah I think that items that come from China probably will need hazmat gear when it is delivered to you lol