Anyone have a bricked arduino they would like to donate to science?
I want to test out my latest build 
I cant see potentially destroying a good arduino to test this
That is a decent design - your shield board looks good also. I have the shield you reference in the link and it seems to work ok.
Wish I had a bricked m168 chip to send - you are talking about "just" the chip? Not the total Arduino board?
Please post more info as you go forward your project - I'd like to learn more.
Ken H>
the main idea for this shield is to be able to play with fuses on arduinos that have the main chip soldered in place like the arduino pro