Boot Bot Arduino Bootload Shield

The Boot Bot Shield lets you burn the arduino boootloader onto a blank Atmega 328 chip. The bootloader is that magic piece of software that turns a mundane chip into the open source programmable miracle known as the arduino. Blank chips cost a few dollars less per chip than bootloaded ones. With the Boot Bot you will have no need for all that pre-bootloaded extravagance. Once completed, this board will allow you to use your arduino as an ISP programmer that can burn the arduino bootloader onto your raw chips!

Update: The Boot Bot has been entered into the Arduino Challenge. Please Vote!

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I have entered this instructable in the Shopbot contest! If I win, I will use the Shopbot to make the armor and turret system for my power wheels mobile rocket launcher!

Step 1: Materials

To make a Boot Bot you will need:

breadboard

wires

atmega 328 chip

(2) 22pf Capacitors

(1) 10k resistor

(1) 16 MHz crystal

perfboard

male headers

28 pin IC socket or (4) 8 pin sockets