Microchip’s enhanced Flash microcontrollers enable firmware to program itself. This is done by a “bootloader” providing a firmware kernel, residing in the microcontroller. The kernel uses a small ...

In this article, I'll be explaining the basics of how microcontrollers work, physically and virtually. First off, microcontrollers are no simple thing, so don't be discouraged if you find it ...

[Frank] has a Ultimaker2 and wanted to install a new bootloader for the microcontroller without having physical access to the circuitry. That means installing a new bootloader for the ATMega2560 ...

Now you understand that what is a bootloader is and what are the benefits of a bootloader. Inspired by many online tutorials, now I am giving you an introduction to ...

In this post on the Arduino.cc forums and this blog post, [Majek] announced that he had fooled the AVR microcontroller inside and Arduino into writing user data into its own flash memory during ...