As the proud owner of an Eurgle and an Arduino Duemilonova (what a mouthful!), I am having some fun!
I have built a shield for the arduino that:
disables the arduino reset
provides heartbeat, error and program LEDs
exposes the six pins for the cable to the radio via header pins
I have installed the ISP sketch on the arduino.
I have downloaded eePe and er9x.
Now I think I have had every error in the book - often caused by my poor wiring - and I have worked through most of them, but now I am stuck . . .
Please let me know what I am doing wrong (asides from not using S_mack's board
)1. Plug Arduino into USB cable
2. Heartbeat LED starts pulsing
3. Plug cable into radio
4. Radio is not receiving enough power from the programmer to run so I have it's battery plugged in and turned on.
5. Radio starts normally and then switches to the function menu screen and starts beeping at approximately one second intervals
6. When I run eePe and try to read the radio's memory, I get:
avrdude: stk500_2_ReceiveMessage(): timeout
Now this says to me that I have partial communication with the radio and I have checked continuity via the cable several times.
Most of this has happened on my mac, but I can now replicate the error on my windows 7 pc.
No suggestion is too stupid. Any ideas welcome.
Thanks for your time.
