Communicating with attiny85

I am trying to see if there is a good way to communicate with an attiny85 chip from the Netduino. I know I can do it from the Arduino by using serial, but when I try to use the Netduino's serial I am getting garbage on the tiny's side. I would prefer to use my Netduino plus since ultimately, I would like to use the web service I have for it to drive an RF Transmitter to control a couple different 'stations' that are driven by the attiny. Any thoughts?

Welcome to the community! You should be able to communicate over the serial without any problems, just make sure you have correct values (baudrate, parity, number of data and stop bits) set on both sides. In case you are using high baudrate, you'd probably need to check the device datasheets for their respective deviations and make sure the error does not exceeds the limits.

Hi, is it possible to program an attiny85 with a Netduino? If so, how would one go about it?

it may be possible if you write the software for it, that may also involve changing the firmware (becouse of timing and such)

- so yes its possible, but a waste of time, buy a normal programmer, avrisp mkII from atmel is very good and cheap.

 

btw attiny and netduino: it worked for me. just make sure you set the baudrate the same on both