Ok, today I will start to do one of things every Arduino developer does at least once till he dies: Making his own Arduino clone.

For this matter i chose to do a “normal” Arduino clone, like Freeduino and sorts with some bits and bilts i like more than existing on the regular plattform.
I will start out building a small ISP burner to get some stuff prepared i want to test later. My goal, after all, will be to have a clone that runs totally on DIL parts – no need for SMT parts, even with using USB.

So far i will divide the project into the following steps:
1) Building an ISP (using mega-ISP)
2) Burning a modified VUSB Firmware on an mega168
3) Making a breadboard Arduino using the parts i have here
4) If 3 passes the tests making schematics available for it with downloadable firmware and maybe prototyping a PCB for it.