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November 29, 2012 at 3:29 pm
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Windell Oskay
Keymaster
Hi Kurt,
C6 is part of the “auto-reset” circuit along with R1. This is part of the “RC” circuit that resets the microcontroller to allow programming. Early generations of the Arduino did not have this, so required you to manually press the reset button to initiate programming.