Introduction

Every electronics enthusiast and Hobbyist loves Arduino's right! we all use board like Arduino UNO, Nano, Pro Mini, or any other similar Arduino even for some basic projects. For tiny projects like displaying a straightforward message on LCD or simply Fading LED would be a waste of resources and money. In this tutorial, I discovered an inexpensive and Compact Alternative to Arduino called ATTINY85. So, today you will learn to Program Digispark Attiny85 with Arduino IDE.

Components Required

About Attiny85 Board

Attiny85 is like Arduino, but it is not Arduino, ATTINY85 is a Micro-Controller chip, which has 6 General Purpose I/O pins (GPIO), out of which 5 are PWM enabled, and ATTINY85 also supports the SPI and I2C Communication Protocols, but it's only 8Kb of programming memory, so yes, it's not as capable as Arduino board, but it'll work just fine for tiny projects.

It also has some more features like:

- Inbuilt 8-Bit timers.

- Inbuilt comparators.

- 512 Bytes of EPROM

- 512 Bytes of SRAM.

Here, is a complete datasheet for a brief knowledge.

This Attiny85 comes in a module and standalone chip. I would never recommend you guys to use this chip and rather go for a module that comprises a voltage regulator and can be directly plugged into your computer. But before you plug it into the computer, some things needed to be set up.

About the sponsor: This article is sponsored by PCBway Company, one of the most experienced PCB and PCB assembly manufacturers.

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