Not sure this is the right place for this post, but here goes: I've become curious about the ATTINY family of microprocessors. Really tiny; the ATTINY-12, which might be the one I want to play with, comes in an 8-pin package. Pretty amazing little devices that can do a lot of stuff for such a small package.
I'd like to try playing around with one of these, programming it, without using an Arduino, which seems to be the most popular way to talk to these things. I'd like to use my PC, using a programmer connected via USB (or serial port?). So what I think I'm looking for is:
- A programmer, either ready-made or one I can build myself (I have some electronics chops)
- An assembler to produce the hex file needed for programming
- The software to upload code to the device and run and debug it
Anyone know anything about this? I found a lot of stuff online (eBay, Amazon, other places) for these processors, but nothing that looks like what I need. Even tried
Microchip's site, but couldn't find any programmers or IDEs.
Any help appreciated.