There are a few reasons why you might want to burn a bootloader yourself:
- You are starting with a bare chip, fresh from the factory
- You have ‘bricked’ a processor board and want to repair it
- You have special requirements and want to install a custom bootloader
This page has a number of links to tools and instructions for repairing, customizing and/or burning bootloaders on various microcontrollers:
USBTiny ISP
This device can be used to flash bootloaders or other programs onto AVR Microcontroller boards with ICSP headers.
Standalone AVR Chip Programmer
This board is designed for programming Atmel/Microchip AVR ATmega processors in 28 pin DIP packages.

Segger J-Link Programmer
Segger makes a variety of programmers designed for programming many different processor families and architectures.


And a variety of others!

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