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[sctthrtr]

What do you have to do to get this thing to work. I'm trying to do the second tutorial. I've checked everything plenty of times and I keep getting:

avrdude: initialization failed, rc=-1

I'm running Windows XP with winavr

I've tried it using OS/X 10.4 with the same results.

my board is wire exactly as in the tutorial.

I've read every post on this board and tried several different configs. When I try to program, the reset pin is pulled low, which (I think) telling me that I am getting throught to the atmega328p.

From reading some of the other post, is it possible that this thing just doesn't work? Why would they sell them?

thanks,

Scott

[skatefriday]

It's finicky. Sometimes it just refuses to work. Frankly
I don't know why they sell them either. IMHO a real black
mark for SparkFun.

[leon_heller]

Return it and get an AVRisp Mk2 or a Dragon. They cost more, but work without any problems. You also get debugging with the Dragon.