Yeah I was hoping I could 'somehow' get the DIY FTDI cables to work
either the CA-42 which I tried already..or the DKU-5 exta one I have laying around..
man....lol
I have NEVER gotten a DIY parallel programmer to work for flashing bootloader to blank chips.
never got DIY MAX232 serial converter to work either..
after getting my 'real' Ardunio and using it as a programmer for bootloading the chips..
I (now) cant get the DIY FTDI cabls to upload sketches to it...
(Im not so luck with the DIY cables eh?...lol.. usually I make all my cables for my projects..etc)
thanks