September 30, 2012
Hello:
This section of the forum is generalized enough, I hope, such that I can post my question here. I own an avrisp mkii programmer (built by atmel I think), and multiple arduino boards. I have plugged the avrisp mkii into one serial port on my laptop here, and am using a second arduino board strictly as a power source.
I pass power from the 'not to be programmed' arduino over to the 'to be programmed' one (plus 5 volts), I fire up the arduino IDE, and try to progam the awainting board from inside the Arduino IDE. ????? I'm obviously not getting all of the steps done here, because it's giving me trouble. I don't even get any notification of any kind that there is a commencement of programming, or anything like that. ?????
There's 950 bezillion sources out there on how to go about this, but it just isn't very clear what everyone is saying. I don't even need the second arduino (the 'not to be programmed' one). I could just use a 7805 in it's place. I know that one of the ways to program the target arduino is to place a second arduino into the mix, but I'm not pursueing this option here just now. Using the 'second arduino into the mix' option strikes me as something that I would like to master as well, but I just want to nail the 'w/ avrisp mkii' process first. I can't figure out what I'm missing here. Seems like it should be simple enough, ??????? Can anyone offer some help???