Can't program rainbowduino

[electroplated]

I've spent far too long trying to upload a sketch to my rainbowduinow without success so hoping someone can help me.

I've tried using an arduino UNO and a usb>serial ttl cable to connect but both produce the same result:

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Binary sketch size: 7488 bytes (of a 14336 byte maximum)
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding


verbose:

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Binary sketch size: 7488 bytes (of a 14336 byte maximum)
/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/tools/avr/bin/avrdude -C/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf -v -v -v -v -patmega168 -cstk500v1 -P/dev/tty.usbserial-A400hB0i -b19200 -D -Uflash:w:/var/folders/fs/mmr8tv057_qdr7m8qs00b0g40000gn/T/build509412131942116410.tmp/Rainbowduino_Firmware_v3_0h.cpp.hex:i

avrdude: Version 5.4-arduino, compiled on Oct  9 2007 at 11:20:31
         Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/

         System wide configuration file is "/Applications/Arduino.app/Contents/Resources/Java/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"
         User configuration file is "/Users/ben/.avrduderc"
         User configuration file does not exist or is not a regular file, skipping

         Using Port            : /dev/tty.usbserial-A400hB0i
         Using Programmer      : stk500v1
         Overriding Baud Rate  : 19200
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30]   [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [00]
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
avrdude: Send: Q [51]   [20]
avrdude: ser_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding


I've tried swapping round the rx/tx connections and triple checked the correct ports and board are selected in the arduino IDE but no matter what, I can't get anything to upload.

I have no issues at all uploading sketched to my arduino UNO via USB.

Any ideas?  =(

[cmiyc]

Have you read "Use Arduino to Upload firmware" on the product page's link:  http://www.seeedstudio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Rainbowduino_LED_driver_platform_-_Atmega_328#Resources

[electroplated]

nope, didn't come across that page when googling but it looks very useful - cheers

managed to solve my problem in the end - the rainbowduino has a 328 not 168 chip on it which I didn't realise, so once I'd selected the correct board for that all worked fine. doh!