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programming. When it goes out you're done. Its very slow but if you're in a pinch, it may

come in handy!

Using the Command Line AVRdude

Now if you open up a terminal and try running avrdude -c ftdifriend If you are using the

avrdude installation thats inside the Arduino IDE, you can open up a cmd terminal and cd

to the directory where you have the IDE installed and then go to hardware\tools\avr. Then

you can run bin\avrdude.exe -C etc\avrdude.conf -c ftdifriend so for example, my

installation is in C:\arduino-0018\ I cd to C:\arduino-0018\hardware\tools\avr.

You should get a note that No AVR part has been specified (not that it Can't find

programmer id "ftdifriend")

Great, now its time to program!

Connect the Black (Ground) wire to the ground of your chip

Connect the Red (VCC) wire to the power/VCC/5V pin of your chip

Connect the White (DTR) wire to the Reset pin

Connect the Orange (TX) wire to SCK pin

Connect the Green (RTS) wire to MOSI pin

Connect the Blue (CTS) wire to the MISO pin We suggest verifying the wiring! We'll

verify the connection by running avrdude -c ftdifriend -P \\.\COMxx -p atmega328p

Replace the \\.\COMxx with the COM port you found in the earlier part of this tutorial

via the Device Manager. If you're using linux or mac, the COM port should be

/dev/cu.usbserialXXX or /dev/ttyUSBx to match the name. For the device, we're

testing with an Atmega328p chip which is found in the latest Arduinos. If you're using

some other chip, substitute the name right after the -p