Since you have an AVR USBasp programmer in hand,is it possible to upload bootloader and/or program code to Arduino using the same USB asp programmer, instead of the proven methods described earlier?

Last Fall [Kevin] wanted to program some newer TPI-only AVRs using an old USBasp he had kicking around his lab. Finding an “odd famine of information” and “forums filled with incorrect ...

[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 ...