So he tried his hand with some really small SMD parts by building this USB to serial Arduino programmer. The chip he went with isn’t the FTDI part we’re used to. Instead of using an FT232RL ...

While the Arduino family of boards connect to your computer using a USB virtual serial port, the ATmega ones have an actual serial connection on-board. For instance, on the Nano there is an ...

Hardware hackers building interactive gadgets based on the Arduino microcontrollers are ... The driver in question is for a line of USB-to-serial chips designed by Scottish firm FTDI.