Custom RBOT Board

Sometimes you will not find an Arduino board that fits the needs of your projects and you might want to use a different Atmel microcontroller. In this section we will explain how to integrate your custom board into the Arduino IDE so that you can use it to program it.

Add this text to the end of the board.txt file found at the arduino_installation_directory/hardware/arduino/avr directory:

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rbot.name=RBOT

rbot.upload.tool=avrdude
rbot.upload.protocol=arduino

rbot.bootloader.tool=avrdude
rbot.bootloader.unlock_bits=0x3F
rbot.bootloader.lock_bits=0x0F

rbot.build.board=AVR_PRO
rbot.build.core=arduino
rbot.build.variant=special

## Arduino Pro or Pro Mini (3V, 1 MHz) w/ ATmega328
## -------------------------------------------------
rbot.menu.cpu.1MHzatmega328=ATmega328 (3V, 1 MHz)

rbot.menu.cpu.1MHzatmega328.upload.maximum_size=30720
rbot.menu.cpu.1MHzatmega328.upload.maximum_data_size=2048
rbot.menu.cpu.1MHzatmega328.upload.speed=57600

rbot.menu.cpu.1MHzatmega328.bootloader.low_fuses=0x62
rbot.menu.cpu.1MHzatmega328.bootloader.high_fuses=0xD9
rbot.menu.cpu.1MHzatmega328.bootloader.extended_fuses=0x07
rbot.menu.cpu.1MHzatmega328.bootloader.file=atmega/ATmegaBOOT_168_atmega328.hex

rbot.menu.cpu.1MHzatmega328.build.mcu=atmega328
rbot.menu.cpu.1MHzatmega328.build.f_cpu=1000000L

## Arduino Pro or Pro Mini (3V, 8 MHz) w/ ATmega328
## -------------------------------------------------
rbot.menu.cpu.8MHzatmega328=ATmega328 (3V, 8 MHz)

rbot.menu.cpu.8MHzatmega328.upload.maximum_size=30720
rbot.menu.cpu.8MHzatmega328.upload.maximum_data_size=2048
rbot.menu.cpu.8MHzatmega328.upload.speed=57600

rbot.menu.cpu.8MHzatmega328.bootloader.low_fuses=0xE2
rbot.menu.cpu.8MHzatmega328.bootloader.high_fuses=0xD9
rbot.menu.cpu.8MHzatmega328.bootloader.extended_fuses=0x07
rbot.menu.cpu.8MHzatmega328.bootloader.file=atmega/ATmegaBOOT_168_atmega328.hex

rbot.menu.cpu.8MHzatmega328.build.mcu=atmega328
rbot.menu.cpu.8MHzatmega328.build.f_cpu=8000000L