Well how about capabilities to choose a hex file compiled earlier or creating using other methods... this can then be extended in making the arduino a full time AVR programmer. I was reading this and think it makes a lot of sense to add a programmer option http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.…

Optional Programmer?

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