Let's say I have an arduino UNO board, and some kind of chip (like the ATtiny8 but it's not a good example) and I would like to program it with the AVR programmer or something. If I want it to communicate with the computer I need a breakout board which is a lot of money. I was thinking maybe I can use the arduino board as programmer somehow.
Thanks but this is only for atmega... I need to use it for other Atmel chips with the UNO as well.
How about Atmega644?
Seriously? There's a step-by-step tutorial available from the first page... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%2Barduinoisp+%2Batmega644