I now use the: USBTinyISP method.
Using a Raspberry Pi board as AVR programmer to update the QRP Labs QCX transceiver's firmware. The power draw from the QCX to the RPi seemed a bit too much, so I did not use the RPi 5v output.
Photo of older version firmware, i'm now at v1.05.
/boot/ssh
and /boot/wpa_supplicant.conf
for headless install./boot/config.txt
and reboot: dtparam=spi=on
sudo apt install avrdude
Raspberry Pi ========================================= (Right board edge) | 1 oo|2 3 oo|4 5 oo|6 7 oo|8 9 oo|10 11 oo|12 13 oo|14 15 oo|16 17 oo|18 BCM 10 MOSI - 19 oo|20 BCM 9 MISO - 21 oo|22 BCM 25 RESET BCM 11 SCLK - 23 oo|24 GND - 25 oo|26 <snip> QCX ========================================= (left board edge) | V - | V + | GND | o o RESET MOSI | o o SCK 5V | o o MISO
sudo avrdude -p atmega328p -c linuxspi -P /dev/spidev0.0 -v -b19200
sudo avrdude -p atmega328p -c linuxspi -P /dev/spidev0.0 -v -b19200 -U flash:w:T1.04.hex