Burning the Sanguino Bootloader

How to Burn the Sanguino Bootloader

I've started this page to document how I went to try and burn the bootloader into the ATMEL 644p for the Sanguino motherboard. There isn't much info around to help how to do this, so it is here.

You need to burn the bootloader if one doesn't come already burned onto the chip, so that it is primed to work with the Arduino environment and ready to accept new firmware.

I'm using the USBTiny to program both the bootloader and any firmware.

First off, download the latest release of the Sanguino software.

Next extract all the files somewhere

Open the Boards.txt (using Notepad) file and copy its contents

Go to where you installed the Arduino environment, and open up the "Hardware" directory.

Open Boards.txt (Notepad is good)

Paste in the copied contest of the other boards.txt to the top of the file, save and close.

Copy from the extracted files the hardware directory and copy over its contents to the location of where you installed the Arduino, this is usually c:\Program Files\Aruino\hardware

And it should work