Lobot on the A-Star Micro and Arduino Micro
The
Lobot can also be used as an
ISP programmer for the
A-Star Micro from Pololu and the
Arduino Micro clone.
The A-Star Micro is used in the
Atreus. I replaced the bootloader on the Atreus I built with the
LUFA Mass Storage bootloader. It would have been a lot easier to flash the bootloader with the Lobot.
The A-Star Micro is similar to the Pro Micro, but
much smaller. It comes with the same Caterina type bootloader.
The only change is that the pogo pins are installed in the 6 pin ISP header location. I took apart a pin header and built a support. I doubled up the plastic shrouds to make it taller and soldered the pins on the ends to hold it in place.
The Arduino Micro clone has the same ISP header.
Side view of the double stacked headers used as a support for the A-Star Micro when being programmed.
The ISP header pinout is fairly standard. It can probably be used to program other small AVR boards as well.
More info on the Lobot
here.
