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Hi,

I've had some experience using Arduino Uno, but now tried to use Mini for the first time, and have gotten stuck.

I planned to use the Uno to program the Mini, so I hooked up 5V, GND, TX, RX and Reset to the Uno (plugging TX->TX and RX->RX, not crossing), and a led to pin 13. The only difference from the setup on the ArduinoMini page was that I did not remove the chip from the Uno.

After trying to upload a sketch, the led blinked, as if it was resetting, but the board failed do work (I tried uploading Blink first). After several more tries, it worked, but then trying to upload a different sketch failed again.

Any ideas? Do I need to remove the chip from Uno for the board to work as a programmer for the Mini?
(It's probably something obvious, and I'll look like a real noob

Thanks in advance.

[Reply #1 on:]

I did not remove the chip from the Uno

Why not?

[Reply #2 on:]

Why not?

Mostly because I'm lazy and laso because I was afraid to break it.

But is solved it now. I was sure it was somethign simple, and it was just a classic case of not reading carefully enough. I forgot to reset the board shortly before uploading, as the mini doesn't auto-reset for uploads. Silly me!

[Reply #3 on:]

So, did you remove the 328 chip to make this work???

Thanks...

[Reply #4 on:]

I was playing with it a lot last night. Yes, in order to program it easily you need to remove the chip from the Uno. With the chip still in, I think there is some interference from the Uno while the Mini is being programmed, although I can be completely wrong.

Nevertheless it works, and I even managed to get the Mini and Uno working with a VirtualWire link. Hurrah!

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What Rx & Tx modules did you use for Virtual Wire?