Atmega328 Rainbowduino Programming via Arduino Issue

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@miso

@antonio - Thanks for the info, this makes sense. I found some posts in the past, where people said that using two atmega328 devices in such a configuration was not possible but this is the best explanation.

You’re welcome; I gathered the info looking a bit further in the Arduino docs, everything was already there - if you only know where to look, as usual

@miso

As far as removing the atmega it is too risky so I prefer not to try it.

I followed the same path, and used a serial device I already had.

@michu - Since your configuration works, I can only think of two things that could be happening. 1) My black widow which is based on the duemilanove does something differently to your device. 2) Something I am doing is not right or I damaged the equipment.

I have an original Arduino 2009 and a Rainbowduino v2 - my results are the same as yours, and from the various posts on the forum you see that quite a lot of people have had the same problem in the past.

Please let me know if you have any other suggestions that can help me avoid that.

The only thing I can think of is reflashing one of the two bootloaders and use a different version (maybe the older one, which was slower). But you would need an AVR programmer of some sort for that, AFAIK.

Antonio