I am trying to bypass a spotty Bluetooth connection on my Arduino bt by using the parallel programmer described on the main arduino site. I have built the cable correctly, and installed the giveo driver, but I am having a terrible time editing the preferences file such that it will use the cable correctly. All I have done is changed the line "Upload.using" from bootloader to Parallel Programmer.
Can anyone see what I am doing wrong, or can you E-mail me a preferences or board file that is set up to use the parallel programmer, so I can see what to do? I would be forever grateful for any help, and to show my gratitude I will name one of my resistor drawers in your honor. Just think, the 100 or maybe 47K ohm could be an everlasting reminder of your arduino genius.
Here is the error message I receive.
"Binary sketch size: 1010 bytes (of a 28672 byte maximum)
java.lang.NullPointerException
at processing.app.debug.AvrdudeUploader.getProgrammerCommands(Unknown Source)
at processing.app.debug.AvrdudeUploader.uploadUsingPreferences(Unknown Source)
at processing.app.Sketch.upload(Unknown Source)
at processing.app.Sketch.exportApplet(Unknown Source)
at processing.app.Sketch.exportApplet(Unknown Source)
at processing.app.Editor$DefaultExportHandler.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)"