[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 ...

[Walter]’s device was based upon the Arduino Leonardo. Starting with the Caterina bootloader ... flick all your lights on and off before burning your house down in the night by overclocking ...

Here is the procedure: It is probably easier to just install the bootloader from the Arduino IDE. Arduino takes care of all the messy details for you when you burn bootloaders through it. Finally, ...