I have an ATMEL AVRISP MK2 from about 2011. Works fine. I need two more so I typed AVRISP in the DigiKey search. This is the first item that came up 1597-1524-ND. Looks the same so I ordered two.
Neither work, I was directed to a GitHub side to download a driver which does nothing. It only goes up to Win7. I am running Win11/64 as do most professional design engineers these days. Win10 is now off support and certainly is Win7 as well.
It turns out this product is not the official Atmel programmer and is a Chinese look alike clone. You know, the stuff you get on Amazon. Why does DigiKey sell this product? Why is it at the top of a search for the old product? I thought DigiKey was a certified product vendor, one of the top rated in the industry.
So where do I get an Atmel/Microchip approved programmer? To be very cleat, a programmer this is certified by Atmel/Microchip. I don’t care what it costs! I need a product that works.
