AVR-Chat

cboy2us wrote:
>   I am new to avr, but not micros.  I would like to build my own avr programmer for USB, and was wondering if there is any open source programmer for avr that is decent (programs a fair range of avr).  I have access to other programmers I can use to program the USB avr, so that is not a problem. 
>   

    I'm going to build one of these:

    http://www.fischl.de/usbasp/

    Mark Jordan