Arduino would be able to send programs to the device as root, but not as user.
sudo apt-get --purge remove modemmanager
/etc/udev/rules.d/usbasp.rules
ATTRS{idVendor}=="16c0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="05dc", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="2341", ATTRS{idProduct}=="8036", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev"
Add all the Arduino clone devices found by lsusb
there.
Useful resources: http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=129647.0