I butchered up one of the almost-broken Pro Minis I have, its a 16Mhz version so not sure if its going to just run at a lower frequency or be unstable, but all I will need it to do is sleep and wake up every now and then to send a reading from a sensor!
Im going to get some of those NRF24 something radios as they seem to have far better range and support than the things I HAVE been using hahaa,
Basically, I removed BOTH LEDs (forgot there was a PIN13 LED on there D: could have left that
and the regulator was also removed.
Powered it via 3.3v from my USB TTL adapter and uploaded a blink sketch, probed an LED onto 13 and GDN (yes GDN hueeee)
and it blinks 😀
so I can use this one soon.