Kudos! Now the USBasp programmer and the programming adaptor are ready for use. Next step is the preparation of the first AVR C program. AVR Studio provides an IDE for writing, debugging, and ...

That little six-pin header with MOSIs and MISOs coming out of it will program every AVR you’ll ever come across. The ISP does have a downside – fuses.

If you disable the reset pin, by accident or in order to use it as an I/O pin, you will need to use HVP or debugWire to use ISP programming again.