I am working on a project (first major DIY project) in which I designed a board and soldered parts onto it. This includes the Atmega 328P which was bought in bulk and should be without a bootloader. The board is similar to Nootropic's designs hackvision and is essentially a TV Out based Video Game Console. I am using both Composite A/V and VGA Out (using Nick Gammon's setup and libraries)
The issue is that I am not able to upload code to it using the Arduino IDE on Windows. I connect the pocket programmer to the 6 pin header on the board and then to my laptop using MiniUSB but nothing shows up on the ports. An arduino Redboard with direct USB connection does show up though. Do I need to do something special to make it work with the Pocket Programmer? I keep getting a "USBtinyISP not found" error. Is it something wrong with the board because there is not bootloader? Power is flowing and electrical connections seem fine though. Are there drivers I need?
I am really inexperienced with this AVR Pocket Programmer and have little idea about how it works with the Arduino IDE. All I know is that it used to work with OS X when my co-worker did it last summer and I really need to get code uploaded to the Microcontroller to finish my project as a demo.
Any help would be appreciated and there is a link with the schematic and board files i thats helpful.