I have a Raspberry PI 2, and I know it's possible to use an Raspberry PI for programming an AVR, but I came across something. Apparently if you brick your chip by fiddling with the fuses you need a programmer with "high voltage parallel programming" capabilities, as stated here. The fuses I mention here are not to be mistaken for fuses like the ones you find in your house, the fuses I'm talking about are the ones set by software running on the AVR chip. The link above also states that HVPP can be done with an Arduino.
Does the Raspberry PI have high voltage parallel programming capabilities?
Best Answer
No.
It says that you can use an Arduino for HVPP with additional hardware. Similar hardware (a shield or hat or pants or whatever Raspberry Pi calls it) could be developed for the Raspberry Pi, but you can't do it "out of the box".