The thing is that i have an ESP8266 Wifi Module that can be programmed by an FTDI chip, which i dont have. I was wondering that whether i can use my arduino as a FTDI programmer. This is a picture of my arduino. I know that there are 2 avr microcontrollers on the board. One is used to convert USB signals to Tx Rx signals and the other gets programmed. Can i convert the first to an FTDI??
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There are two Atmel chips on board, one is completly tied up with USB functionality and communicates with the ATMEGA328 using its only serial port (Hardware one) but you can use the software serial library and acheive the same thing, you would then write a sketch to copy everything comming in on the USB based serial out to the software serial and everything comming in on the software serial back up the USB based serial to the PC... done 
There are two Atmel chips on board, one is completly tied up with USB functionality and communicates with the ATMEGA328 using its only serial port (Hardware one) but you can use the software serial library and acheive the same thing, you would then write a sketch to copy everything comming in on the USB based serial out to the software serial and everything comming in on the software serial back up the USB based serial to the PC... done
