Like many of us who fiddle with microcontrollers, [Mike] and [Brian] often found themselves using an ISP programmer and a USB-to-serial adapter. ... Continue reading “AVR Programming 04: ...

And I believe the PICkit 2 could function as a stand-alone field ISP programmer. Nowadays a USB AVR programmer is $7, a USB-serial adaptor is $3… programming adaptors aren’t really a barrier ...