mtXControl - a Rainbowduino Editor By Tobi

I can’t seem to get off the starting blocks with this one!

I can’t successfully upload any sketches whilst the Rainbowduino is wired up to the Arduino, even the ‘blank’ sketch. If it is wired up (all correctly as well, I’ve checked and double checked) I get the error message:

avrdude: stk500_paged_write(): (a) protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0xff
avrdude: failed to write to flash memory, rc=-4

If I unplug the rainbowduino, the sketch loads up perfectly. So I’m not too sure how to get mTxControl to work if I cant get the firmware sketch to upload and run, when I can’t have the rainbowduino attached.

I’m sure I must be doing something wrong, being and Arduino noob! So any help would be greatly appreciated.

By the way, I’m on XP, using Arduino 0018 and a Duemilanove 328.

Thanks,
Ali