[Noisebridge-discuss] looking for a ZIF socket programmer for atmega328p atmel chips

[Andy Isaacson]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 05:46:39PM -0800, Jake wrote:
> i looked on ebay but couldn't find anything cheap.
> 
> isn't there anything in the open sores community?

You can program them with avrdude and a AVRISPmkII and a breadboard.

Even cheaper, it's possible to wire something up with a PC parallel port
or some GPIOs on a rPi, but I haven't seen the wiring diagram for the
latter.  (Hey, that would be a cool project for CHM!)

-andy