Twitter Mood Light: WiFly Shield SPI-UART bridge failed to initialize

Hi all,

I'm playing around with this WiFly Shield which is part of the Twitter Mood Light project on Instructables.com -- http://www.instructables.com/id/Twitter-Mood-Light-The-Worlds-Mood-in-a-Box/.

I'm trying to see if the WiFly shield's SPI-UART bridge is connected, but I get this initialization error. I've looked around the web and haven't gotten any results concerning this problem thus far.

I'm using Arduino IDE 1.0.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 with an Arduino Uno R3 and WiFly RN 131-C, FYI.

I've also attached a picture of what this error looks like on the serial monitor. I've also attached a zip file of the code for the Twitter Mood Light to assist you guys.

Look forward to hearing from you!

WorldMood.zip (18.3 KB)

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