On the other hand if you already have the Arduino, fetch the avr.isp.03 firmware and AVRdude. Then program a device, for example an ATtiny13 using the Ardunio as the programmer.

This sketch can be used to let one Arduino program a sketch or bootloader into another one, using the ISP programming pins. This sketch is based on OptiLoader, but modified for use with Adafruit's ...

So he tried his hand with some really small SMD parts by building this USB to serial Arduino programmer. The chip he went with isn’t the FTDI part we’re used to. Instead of using an FT232RL ...

Make your Arduino as AVR programmer. First, connect your Arduino Mega 2560 board to your PC, start Arduino IDE and upload avr_isp.ino file onto your Mega 2560 board. Once this is uploaded, your Mega ...

Starting with a "clean" copy of the avrisp sketch that accompanies the Arduino IDE, port it to straight C for use without Arduino. This also gives a copy of the Arduino sketch that will remain static.

This is where the high voltage parallel programming mode will come into the picture and is the only way to recover the device. This mode is being supported by very few programmers. The entire HV ...