The most common way of programming ... it will program every AVR you’ll ever come across. The ISP does have a downside – fuses. Set your fuses wrong, and without a High Voltage Serial ...

1 avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1 avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions avrdude: Device signature = 0x88fb38 avrdude: Expected signature for ATtiny85 is 1E 93 0B ...

It is possible to use an Arduino for High Voltage Parallel Programming to recover your AVR, but that’s another hack in itself. We use an AVR Dragon for pretty much everything. But the STK500 is ...

Is based on AVR-Doper programmer. supports serial low-voltage, serial and parallel high-voltage modes for AVR, and high-voltage serial for PIC. Аlso has a serial port mode for debug.