We should at least mention the MKII, a programmer that offers ISP in the same way that the USBtinyISP does, but also provides JTAG, debug wire, and few others. We have no experience with this unit so ...

I got into AVR chips because they are easy to program, and that has become more and more true over the years with the ever-falling cost of programmers. But it’s pretty easy to make a mistake when ...