[chbot] Atmel Programmers

[Jasper Mackenzie]

Good day,
  At the last meeting I was talking to a few of you about programmers as I  
need to move away from the wonderful butterfly to more wonderful things  
like attiny's...

The person who knew I would forget their name, had built a ladyada  
programmer which he had modified for single sided board, could you post a  
pdf of the board please, as I dont use eagle. I am using FreePCB (win)

Synco said he was using a usbprog which does seem like a very complete  
programmer. My questions with this programmer are:
  a) can it do 1-wire debug - I couldn't find anything on the the usbprog  
website to suggest so. If not, is there a DIY programmer that does?
  b) How in the heck as a total C n00b do I use the jtag etc. meaningfully?
  c) Did this come as a kit, is there a single sided version of the  
board... i.e what route to fabrication did you take.

Synco, you also mentioned that instead of a dedicated debugger it is  
easier to pulse a pin or use a uart, I guess much the same as I was doing  
with the Butterfly LCD.

Anyway, any other thoughts? especially as to how to use and how useful  
debugging is on these chips. I am using gcc-avr in a GNU/Linux environment.

Cheers

Jasper