Solving problems with uploading programs to your Arduino

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After fiddling around with bootloaders and programmers for a few days, I realize there are a few things you have to get right for the whole thing to work seamlessly.

If you do, life is a dream, it all works perfectly and you have a lot of fun.

If not, it can be frustrating.

With a view to helping people who may not realize all the interaction between fuses, clock speeds, baud rates, and so on, I've made a guide to the way the uploading/bootloading process works:

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Good one Nick... :slight_smile: Always wanted to know what fuses were and what it does :slight_smile:

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Your site must be fast becoming the goto place for Arduino and related information.

In future I'm just going to answer questions with this

:slight_smile:

Rob

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Thanks Rob! I've changed my sig now to: http://www.gammon.com.au/electronics

That is a redirect to the electronics part of the forum, bypassing all the MUD-game related stuff.