This is a Perl command-line program for programming AVR chips using Bifferboard as a hardware interface. Programming is slowly but fast enough so that you download a boot loader to your chip.

The Serial download SPI interface of the AVR chips is used (aka. In-System Programming), and therefore not all AVR chips are supported, only the newer ones.

The idea behind this project is not different from other similar programs like "avrdude". The implementation is in "beta" status and the supported AVR chips are fairly limited. I wrote it from scratch because it was fun, and I also hope that the Perl implementation is somehow more clear than the existing C implementations I reviewed.

What this project is different with is that it doesn't require that you buy/make a hardware programmer, in order to program an AVR chip. All you have to do is to posses a Bifferboard.

Long story short - if you don't already have or don't plan to buy a Bifferboard, this project probably won't do you any work.