I figure it's time to buy a dedicated programmer and looking at the Arduino IDE is seems to natively support AVRISP, USBTinyISP & USBasp. Could people please suggest the most suitable/versatile of these to buy. It will probably be a cheap eBay device unless the cheap devices are unreliable.

Recommend a USB programmer

Riva February 19, 2013, 3:17pm 8

CrossRoads:
Atmel AVR ISP MKii,
Can do bootloaders, sketches without bootloader, all the ARV devices.

Does this mean the USBtiny & USBasp cannot directly program memory or burn bootloaders?

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