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The USP-Stick is a programmer for Atmels AVR-Controller. It uses the already used circuit of the AVR-ISP-Stick and was shrinked to a size that fits into an USB-A-housing. That means that you do not have problems with other usb-devices from the neighbor-port.

Beside this the programmer has already included a 6-pole programming cable. The VCC-pin of the ISP-Connector is always connected to 5V from USB.

Circuit as PDF

Here you find a step-by-step instruction:

Cut about 2mm of the isolation from the ribbon cable. Best way is a front cutter or a Stanley knife:

Solder the wire-ends:

Solder the ribbon cable onto the PCB, pin 1 is located at the crystal-side:

Place the PCB in the housing:

The PCB has to be fixed in the housing. Therefore you can temporarely fix it with the deliverd plastic-part:

Now you have a lot of opportunities to fix the PCB. The easiest way is hot glue. Just put a drop of it in the middle of the PCB, not at the side expect you want to get trouble mounting the cover… Another options is a drop superglue or to solder the pcb on the bottom at the golden pad:

Slightly bend the cable:

Mount the cover, look out for clamped cables:

Bend over the cord grip:

If you also bought the plastic housing mount it NOW:

Crimp the ribbon cable into the connector, the red cable is pin 1 and marked with a small triangle. You can easily crimp the connector with pliers or a parallel vice: