Kudos! Now the USBasp programmer and the programming adaptor are ready for use. Next step is the preparation of the first AVR C program. AVR Studio provides an IDE for writing, debugging, and ...

USB ASP programmer is a USB-Based in-circuit programmer for Atmel AVR controllers. The programmer uses a firmware-only USB driver, no special USB controller is needed. This programmer can be used with ...

No problem, he figured out how to flash the PIC24FJ using an ATmega8. To get started, he grabbed a copy of the flash programming specifications from Microchip.

While the Arduino family of boards connect to your computer using a USB virtual serial port, the ATmega ones have an actual serial connection on-board.