I program 100 to 500 AVR chips (of various flavors) at a setting for my kits.  All DIP.  I only use a regular DIP socket and a USBtinyISP.  I bend the legs while one is already programming.  I insert the chip only halfway into the DIP socket.  I think this is actually easier than using a ZIF socket -- no need to push and pull that little handle.

Mitch.

> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:46:00 -0800
> From: pp@myelin.co.nz
> To: pdbogen@cernu.us
> CC: jake@spaz.org; sudo-discuss@lists.sudoroom.org; noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net; adi@hexapodia.org
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] looking for a ZIF socket programmer for atmega328p atmel chips
>
> Jake - what package are you looking at? The atmega328p-pu DIP, the
> atmega328p-au TQFP, or one of the more complicated ones?
>
> Is this for production programming? If it's for dev, can you program
> it in-circuit instead?
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:58 PM, <pdbogen@cernu.us> wrote:
> > You can program them from a serial port as well, albeit very slowly. It's a
> > pretty cool hack:
> >
> > http://avrprogrammers.com/programmers/all-serial-port
> >
> > - Patrick
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 05:50:04PM -0800, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 05:46:39PM -0800, Jake wrote:
> >> > i looked on ebay but couldn't find anything cheap.
> >> >
> >> > isn't there anything in the open sores community?
> >>
> >> You can program them with avrdude and a AVRISPmkII and a breadboard.
> >>
> >> Even cheaper, it's possible to wire something up with a PC parallel port
> >> or some GPIOs on a rPi, but I haven't seen the wiring diagram for the
> >> latter. (Hey, that would be a cool project for CHM!)
> >>
> >> -andy
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