I managed to get the Rainbowduino to run the Plasma sketch… which now reveals a fault with one of the red diodes on 8x8 RGB matrix! I’d send it back, but it’s probably too late now. I ordered the matrix and the Rainbowduino from two separate companies at the same time. The matrix arrived three days later, the Rainbowduino never showed, it was now out of stock (which it wasn’t when I ordered it) and wouldn’t be back in for over a month! 6 weeks later I got in touch with the company asking where it was, and I was told they had no record of an order! Money was taken from my bank account and the order even showed on an ‘Order History’ window on their website, but I was continually told they had no record of an order. By sheer coincidence, when I got home that same day, there in my letterbox was the Rainbowduino, at least the despatch guy knew I had an order!!
Anyway, I’m getting way off topic. I have finally been able to upload to my v2.0 Rainbowduino through my Deumilanove, but only after removing the 328 from Arduino. If the chip is in, I get this error:
avrdude: stk500_paged_write(): (a) protocol error, expect=0x14, resp=0xff
avrdude: failed to write to flash memory, rc=-4
So, I can upload firmware.pde to the Rainbowduino with my arduino chip removed, but that’s about as far as I get. I’ve read through all the other steps, I’m lost at a few of them, like what .pde should I be running on the Arduino when I start up mTxControl? But until I can upload sketches to the Arduino when the Rainbowduino is connected, I think I’m pretty well stuck.
Thanks,
Ali