On Tuxbrain, thanks to the
Qi-Hardware ,
AVRFreaks communities and to the little
UBB board, we have successfully flash an Arduino board from Ben NanoNote without need of external power, directly connecting a cable from the NanoNote 8:10 bay to the ICSP header on Arduino, also without need of bootloader in the Atmega328 chip, in fact NanoNote can flash the bootloaders :), and in theory Nanonote can flash whatever
avrdude compatible chip without need of any board (untested yet). Making the little Ben the first AVR microcontroller programmer in the world able to edit the source code, building it, listen music or play
Supertux at same time, in same device, not bad for only 99€ ;)
From this starting point, we have founded a project called, in a fit of originality,
ArduNote, that has as goal make the NanoNote a (even more) useful tool for Arduino and the rest of the AVR family. Right now is less more than a mission statement but in that wiki page we will try to collect all available information related to interaction between this two free(as freedom) hardware platforms, for now enjoy the video demo , and if you decide to jump in , if you buy a
NanoNote and a
Arduino we will include for free a
UBB board and the components needed (cable, ICSP connector and schottky diode) to make the cable than appears in the video