MakeyMakey Bootloader programming over ICSP

I’ve been asked about how I programmed the bootloader so I’m putting the doco here. For all my AVR work I use a bus pirate v3 with the stk500 firmware. I have a cable I made that adapts the bus pirate to the 6 pin AVR ICSP connector.

For MakeyMakey I made an adapter cable to convert the 6 pin AVR ICSP connector to the MakeyMakey header. I prototyped the cable using individual 0.1″ socket to pin cables and then moved them to single 2×3/1×6 housings to make the cable permanent.

The MakeyMakey schematic decodes the header in two parts
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A random ICSP image from google images.
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The pin mapping is

Code:
orange  MISO   6x1-6   2x3-1
yellow  MOSI   6x1-5   2x3-4
green   VCC    6x1-4   2x3-2
blue    GND    6x1-3   2x3-6
purple  RESET  6x1-2   2x3-5
grey    SCK    6x1-1   2x3-3

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1 Comment on “MakeyMakey Bootloader programming over ICSP

  1. Next you need to set up this MakeyMakey as an AVRISP, and the cycle will be complete (with cap-touch bananas)!

    Nice board, sorry I missed this workshop.