[Lady Ada] recently posted a tutorial on burning the Arduino bootloader to standalone chips for those just getting started with the micro. The tutorial cites a common situation, where someone is ...

Wouldn’t it be great is you could also use the ’16u2 on the Uno or Mega ... using this new bootloader to explode over the coming months. If you’re ever in an Arduino Demoscene contest ...

Some beginner-friendly Arduino Uno projects you can get started with ... On the Uno, only 0.5kB of flash memory is used up by the bootloader, unlike the 2kB used on the Nano.