We need an ISP for programming 100 or so Mega 2560 cpus. We will have an USB interface for prototyping but burning this many devices with USB is not fun. Something with an simple interface to pc. And easy to clone too. Arduino ISP is probably good but we'd have to box it and make a product of it. …

What is a good boxed ISP

florinc April 4, 2012, 7:13pm 6

Your best bet would be to pick an ISP programmer listed in the Tools/Programmer menu item of Arduino 1.0
AVRISP MKII seems to be very popular.

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