I dont see why you couldnt san's pc, but its not going to be something already figured out
people make fuse doctors which are basically little single use programmers set on a avr chip to enable "high voltage" programming (so if you screw up your fuses you can set them back to default)
I think your main concern outside of how to actually program a avr chip (which I breifly looked, there is not a ton of info out there, but you could reverse it from the gnu avr tools) would be storage