While burning it, the Arduino program froze and my Mac crashed -_-...
Then upon restarting my latop, I found out about the Arduino as ISP on the 0018 version of the Arduino software. I followed the tutorial but I keep getting this error:
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
I tried looking in the forums but I did not find anything helpful. I want to know if it is a software problem or if I killed my chip because if it's dead then I'm in a lot of trouble!
When I have bricked chips, I got an error something like that.
The only way I found to bring them back to life was with an AVR ISP II, and then not all of them. But, that may be because I couldn't figure out the right google magic to find an answer. I used a working chip, and tried to copy everything into the chip.
But, I have also had similar errors when something small, was wrong.
Is there any way that the chip might signal it has life?
For example, were you burning a bootloader that flashed pin 13?
Did you live near a Hackspace or something, where someone may have an AVR ISP II that you could try? They may be able to give a more definitive answer.
Have you the experience to write an Arduino program to talk over SPI to the chip? AFAIK, it is relatively complex, but the ArduinoISP sketch will have code to talk to a ATmega.