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.
I used to work on this project this past summer in a Lab where I used an iMac for most of my Arduino code. Now I am looking to continue this work at home with PCs but am not able to interface with the Microcontroller. I use the AVR Pocket Programmer and a 6 pin header on my board. I am fairly confident all my connections are correct. The Arduino IDE just neglects to recognize that there is anything on the USB port giving me "USBtinyISP not found". I tried researching a similar problem everywhere and downloaded some drivers that did little to fix the issue.
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 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.
