Comming to grips with arduino, bootloaders & ISP...
Here's the deal, I'm building my first robot & I have an Arduino One board, but I've realized that the board is too pretty for me to use up in my current (and first) project and besides it would be a waste.
My first thought was:
Well, maybe I can pull out the ATmel chip on the board and stick a blank one there, upload the desired code there, take it out and follow some breaduino tutorial to build around it.
Peeked here
http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ArduinoToBreadboard
and...
[original story: Let's Make Robots]