[Swlug] ATTTiny88 solution

[Rhys Sage]

It seems that the board is not Nano compatible. That was false advertising by the eBay seller. I have however managed at least to get blinky to work on it now. There's a long and convoluted way to get the board working on the Arduino IDE.

The library that makes it work is here:  https://github.com/SpenceKonde/ATTinyCore

Here's a paste of the simple way to do it:

This core can be installed using the boards manager. The boards manager URL is:
http://drazzy.com/package_drazzy.com_index.json

File->Preferences on a PC, or Arduino->Preferences on a Mac, enter the above URL in "Additional Boards Manager URLs
Tools -> Boards -> Boards Manager...
Select "ATTinyCore by Spence Konde" and click "Install".

I had given up on it but when I say I've given up, I usually have given up on actually getting it to work but keep playing with it because it has irritated me sufficiently to keep an eye open for solutions. After I give up on something is usually when I find answers.

As I said, I got blinky working on it so the red LED flashes on and off at 1Hz. Being this cheap $2.30 (though I have seen them for 75c) if it works like I want then it's a great board just to solder in place. No loss if it blows up because it's so cheap.

Rhys Sage