I am making an RGB LED project right now using the Arduino UNO board.

At this point everything is working fine so I would like to transfer this onto a small microcontroller circuit to be put inside the enclosure.Since the enclosure is small, I cannot fit the UNO board inside it, hence I want to make a small circuit on perfboard with minimal components.

I read that you can burn the arduino bootloader on a standalone AVR (hooked up to power, filter caps and 16Mhz crytsal) which can then execute arduino code.

Any idea how can I do this. Also can I do this on a Atmega8l AVR since my code is small enough o fit in one. No point wasting a 328 if 8L can do the job.

Thanks!

I am making an RGB LED project right now using the Arduino UNO board.

At this point everything is working fine so I would like to transfer this onto a small microcontroller circuit to be put inside the enclosure. Since the enclosure is small, I cannot fit the UNO board inside it, hence I want to make a small circuit on perfboard with minimal components.

I read that you can burn the arduino bootloader on a standalone AVR (hooked up to power, filter caps and 16Mhz crystal) which can then execute Arduino code.

Any idea how can I do this? Also can I do this on an ATmega8l AVR, since my code is small enough to fit in one? No point wasting a 328 if 8L can do the job.

Thanks!