TI CCC1111 micro/rf transceiver, options for programming hardware?

[rwgast_lowlevellogicdesin]

I have a few of these chips, I would like to load firmware on to them called RFCat, other than that I have no desire to use them in other projects. What is the least expensive way I can program these chips, I found a $50 dollar programmer out there but I would rather pay less or rig something together if I can since I don't plan on investing any time in to this chip, just wanna get some OSS on to it.

[gardner]

I found this...

https://github.com/tobyjaffey/cctl

CCTL is a serial bootloader for the Chipcon CC1110/CC1111 using only one 1KB page of flash. It allows update of the the microcontroller firmware over its serial port.

Included is CCPIL, a ChipCon Hardware Loader which runs on the Raspberry Pi, which can be used to program the initial bootloader.

The CCPIL part looks to just bit-bang the HW interface on some GPIOs.  I would be surprised if you couldn't do that with an AVR or PIC or whatever comes to hand.