The most common way of programming AVR microcontrollers is the In System Programming port. That little six-pin header with MOSIs and MISOs coming out of it will program every AVR you’ll ever come ...

The project is known as Evertool which is an AVRISP/STK500 and Programmer/JTAG debugger on a single board, which is compatible with AVRStudio with firmware upgrade capability. A small device used to ...

[psgarcha] took a year-old Arduino Uno on an international trip and upon returning found something was wrong. Every time he would try to upload, he would get the dreaded avrdude error, ‘stk500_getsync ...