http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/lesson0-win.html

shows what the device should look like if it appears

do you see a USB serial device in the Device Manager?

this has happened to me before

use FTclean
http://www.ftdichip.com/Resources/Utilities.htm
it will clean out the FTDI drivers and you should start again from the beginning
make sure to click "yes" three times, as it's a little tricky to keep people from accidentally using it. just read the dialog boxes very carefully!

  limor

yes it would be pretty easy, im planning to do a demo of that at some point but ive been well, busy

after what seems like 2842 revisions I finished my GPS datalogging shield. Logging GPS & sensor data to a DOS-formatted SD card is basically at the very edge of the Arduino's capabilities but it -does- work. The design might be useful for people doing geo-locative art, surveying-style projects or just want to build their own datalogger. Theres also example code for putting the Arduino into deep-sleep for x seconds which may come in handy.
Im currently doing run-time power tests & will have precise numbers soon.





http://ladyada.net/make/gpsshield/index.html

http://ladyada.net/make/pshield/download.html is a shield design with the shape & all the pins. just delete what you dont want!

heres how to use it under linux (thx to solidsilver!)

http://ladyada.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7605

it should work just fine for '168s as well (altho i havent tried it yet)

I've posted a new rev of the '328p bootloader...it integrates the no-wait & no-hang features from the 'adaboot' bootloader as well as fixing the EEPROM bug (thanks ahoeben for bringing it to my attention) AND the annoying 'missing signature bytes' that crops up when using avrdude

http://www.ladyada.net/library/arduino/bootloader.html

hopefully this will be folded into the official distro, meanwhile you can program it yourself or buy preprogrammed chips

cool, now there just needs to be a mac (and linux?) version and have it hosted somewhere.

well considering the arduino IDE can't compile sketches for the atmega328 it doesn't really matter at this point

ive ported the bootloader, seems fine...but until they're available for purchase it aint much use

yum! samples just arrived for me

the 328 will be out in 2008, probably feb/march. i expect that arduino will support this chip.
P just means DIP part Er, looks like it means something else, maybe some core revision. probably not a big deal.

very nice! an smt crystal might be cheaper to fab (im assuming theres nothing on the other side...?)

if you had space for a seperate 'tx led' would you put it in?