Arduino as ISP Shield v1.0

I was elated when the Arduino as ISP sketch was released. I spent about a year with a breadboarded version using zif socket and a nest of wires, bypassing the Arduino bootloader and burning my sketches straight to the chip. It didn't take long for this breadboard setup to become a cumbersome chore, so I decided to make a dedicated pcb to handle it.

The first version had some issues that this one address.

Improvements include:

  • Place for a resistor to disable auto-reset

  • Large enough holes to use a ZIF socket

  • Option to use either a ceramic resonator OR a crystal

Credit should go to Evil Mad Scientist's ISP Shield Kit for the idea of using a 100Ω resistor to disable auto-reset.