Arduino Duemilanove and Data Logger Shield Not Working

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My partner and I are working on a space probe to test radiation in the atmosphere and we need to be able to write data from the radiation sensor to an SD card. So far, we have soldered together the Data logger shield and connected it to an Arduino Duemilanove. To test the SD Shield to make sure we assembled it correctly, we hooked it up to the computer and used the example program "ReadWrite" under SD, in Arduino 0022. It did not write anything to the SD card, and we were hoping that some of you would know what we did wrong.
You may have to zoom out in your browser settings to see the pictures properly. Sorry!
Here is a picture of the Data Logger Shield Packaging:

Here is two pictures of both boards together:


Here is a picture of the Arduino Duemilanove:

Here are a lot of pictures of the Finished Data Logger shield:




















Thanks a Bunch!

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Hi,
Do us a favor - click the Modify button and cut a bunch of the pictures out, like all the blurry ones to start. Then cut a bunch of hte duplicates.

Next, get some high alchohol content isopropyl alchohol (drugstores carry 90-95%) and a stiff brush and clean all the solder residue and whatever off the bottom of the boards we can see it better. Let it dry thoroughly before powering it up.

Next post, Crop and Resize the pictures (using something like Microsoft Office Picture Manager) to the pics down to about 800 wide x XX tall.

Make sure to properly seat the 8-pin chip.

After its all dried, check your soldering to make sure everything turned out well.
Try some the sketches here after you mate to the arduino and insert an SD card.

http://code.google.com/p/sdfatlib/

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I second the remark about the pictures, my AV software gave me warnings about sudden memory usage of my browser viewing this thread :slight_smile:

Have you checked different SD cards? I have some (older ones) that are no friends with the datalogger shield. I have 2 of those shields and they have worked allways fine. But be sure to check all your soldering connections....

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if you are using example from arduino program itself. i guess the problem is about chip select. should be pin 10 digital. but, in the example it written pin 4 digital. that's why can't read & write. i have experienced it before. the card reader is connected to the pin 10 digital arduino but in the program written chip select pin 4 digital. such a trick there in the example i think.

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Change Atmel CPU.
For me the problem was the CPU.
Before that I tried everything.