The USB in-circuit programmer for Atmel AVR controllers is termed as USBasp which consists of an ATmega48 or ATmega8 along with a couple of passive components. In the design, no special USB controller ...

USBasp is an in-circuit serial programmer designed for the Atmel AVR Microcontroller family. It is a low-cost programmer that converts hex files (.hex) into AVR microcontrollers, utilizing an Atmega8 ...

This is just a quick upload place for my project around an USBasp AVR programmer based on the circuit used by Thomas Fischl, but easily placeable on a standard breadboard.

[jethomson] sent in a build he’s been working on that turns an inexpensive AVR programmer into a development board. The build is based on the very affordable USBasp programmer that’s based on an ...