wanderson:
I am wondering if perhaps there was a problem with the board from OSH park. If you look at the photo you will notice a flaw with the silkscreen printing at PD0:7. I am wondering if perhaps there was a flaw with the copper...
I saw that, but an actual copper problem would be highly unusual, I've never had a problem with a board from OSH Park, even the silk screen is usually very good. See attachments of top and bottom copper layers, not sure that anything in that area would interfere with programming anyway. The SPI pins are the first three on the top of the left side of the chip.
If I connect the FTDI header to a computer, the LED D2 doesn't light, but that should be the case since you have that wired to pin and not as a power indicator?
Correct, it is not a power indicator. Actually it's connected to the SCK pin which is D7 on this board, and so should illuminate during programming.
I can't think of anything else at the moment. I don't have your address readily available, so if you could IM it to me I would appreciate it if you would like to look at the board, if not I can put it on the shelf until I get time to work on debugging it.
IM to follow, this has me curious.
