DIYed Arduino upload problem

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Troubleshooting
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Hello all.

I've just finished a simple arduino setup on a breadboard. I'm using an atmega168 witch was pulled out from my Diecimila, and the blink sketch that is already in it works perfectly.

The problem comes when I try to upload a new program (the same blink example again) but now using the arduino serial USB board (SKU DEV-08165, from sparkfun). The TX led blinks once and after some seconds the IDE returns an error:

Binary sketch size: 1124 bytes (of a 14336 byte maximum)

avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding
avrdude: stk500_recv(): programmer is not responding

I have already looked at the troubleshooting section on wiki and other messages on this forum relating to this issue, but nothing helped me.

I will post a picture of the circuit in the next message as I'm not able to do this here (this is my first post on this forum).

Any help will be very appreciated.

Thank you.
Daniel

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Here is a picture of the whole circuit All sizes | DIYed Arduino | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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You have not got any auto reset coming from the RTS / CTS (I think) lines of the USB interface.
To get this to work you have to press the reset just after you hit the upload to board button. And even then it is a bit hit and miss.

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Thanks for the quick reply Mike.

Pressing the reset button at the beginning of the upload process worked.

I'll find out how to implement the auto reset you mentioned.