Changing the atmega chips on Arduino Duemilanove

[uddin123]

Hello,

I recently bought an Arduino Duemilanove and some Atmega328 chips. I have found the process of programming the arduino board through the arduino software and the usb cable very interesting and very easy, whereas, the process of programming the atmega328 chips through the avrdude software and the usbasp cable is comparatively much more difficult (not only the hardware but the software aswell).

I was wondering if i could take out the atmega328p chip from the arduino board, replace it with my atmega328 chip and program it using the same procedure which i would use for the original arduino board and then place it back onto my circuit. Is this possible?

I am afraid that i might end up burning something if i try this without any prior opinion. Looking forward to your response.

Regards,
Uddin

[robosang]

Yes, you can but you need to load the Arduino bootloader to your Atmega first before using it the arduino method or on Arduino board.

[uddin123]

Thank you very much robosang. It is working now

[robosang]

Good!