building an AVR programmer CABLE

[Tom Lucas]

Nice idea in principle, but it has a major flaw. There's no such
thing as a product that won't get thrown away. It'll just get thrown
away a bit later.

Yes, but then it's someone else's problem ;-)

 

[Ben Jackson]

I was planning on using a Cat5 cable for the wiring, and using the
solid colors only: green, blue, orange, brown, and using the white
striped wires for shielding to minimize crosstalk.

I've built an AVR cable that used satin wire (flat 8 conductor) and had
no trouble, even using long cables (it's a DB25-RJ45 on one end and the
programmer has a RJ45 socket).